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I had thought the slanting tubes should really be upright... I've come to think that this was probably the artists' original intention, and that they only (might have) shown them tilted so that they're form would be apparent from the top-down view used. I don't know of course.

There have been lots of interpretations of the "tubes" or "pipes". Personally, I see them as representing communication between the spiritual world (Heaven) and the physical world (Earth). If that is the case, then I would say that the "tubes" or "pipes" should point in the direction of the physical world. Of course there is disagreement on if the outer circles are the physical world or the spiritual world so I don't know if they should point up or at the outer circles.

I don't know if you have been following my ideas about Ensoulment, Gestation, and Pregnancy. I think the "tubes" or "pipes" in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. represent the connection that initially exists between the new baby soul in the womb and Heaven.

Some of the Zodiac pages show the "nymphs" standing in some kind of container. Some people call these things baskets. Some people think these are the same "tubes" or "pipes" as on the Rosettes page. I don't know. I don't know the meaning of the "tubes" or "pipes" or "baskets" on the Zodiac pages. I don't know why some "nymphs" have them and some don't.

I do like the various interpretations of the tubes, and other features, as relating to gestation and pregnancy in some way. Those ideas go back quite a way, but you seem to have... like many have... your own additional interpretations of these and (seemingly) related features. Not that it matters, but I can see them being possible.

Even f69r, although if it means what you think, I would say it has a dual purpose... for I think it far more than coincidental that the relative diameters of the rings, and the "spokes", and even the points of the central star, all match the proportions and features of a diatom found off the coast of Japan in the late 19th century. An engraving of this specimen is found in "The Microscope And Its Revelations", by William B. Carpenter. The foldout engraving of this diatom does not appear in all editions... it is in the 1875 edition I have. Here is my comparison:



More than this one comparison, there are several other images in that one volume which are also strikingly similar to various Voynich illustrations. I've got a list of many of them, and other books of microscopy and so on, in this post:

https://proto57.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/sources-for-the-voynich-forgery/

But that does not mean that this or any image might not have multiple meanings to the author. A friend of mine, EV, had made many comparisons to anatomical features, herself, and they are often included in Voynich representations that seem to have additional purposes in addition to the purely representational.

Anyway, I'll check out your ideas. Are your website or videos linked in your profile here?

Rich.