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[Antonio García Jiménez]

We are approaching the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. We all know, because it is a widely spread tradition, that the solstice is related to the magic of plants. From experience the ancients knew that light enhanced the properties of plants. Now we know that some but all plants need light for photosynthesis.

For me it is highly probable that, in a codex like the Voynich, half herbal, half cosmological, the summer solstice is present.I believe that the most repeated string of glyphs [daiin] is the position of a star on the day of the summer solstice. I don't like to put letters but I have put them on this occasion for better understanding.

In reality, the string is the number 8 followed by a small circle attached to an inclined line and two more inclined lines, the last one with a closing ornament. As I said in a previous post, the number 8, which is the number of hours of light in each of the two quadrants of the day, from when the sun rises until it sets, is equivalent to the zodiac signs of Gemini and Cancer. The inclined lines are those that exactly place the star in the first degree of Cancer, the solstice.

In fact, there is that same string of glyphs without the number 8, which means that it is a position on the sphere that corresponds to other zodiac signs. Just as the same string of glyphs exists without any inclined line, which would mean, as I see it, that the star is close to the solstice, but in another position.