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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I like to remember from time to time that this forum is developed in English, a language that lacks grammatical gender. Does this have any relevance to the Voynich investigation? I believe that it does have one in relation to the iconographic reading of the multitude of female figures.

In the codex, made by people surely educated in Latin, we see that the drawings of the sun and the moon are characterized with the masculine and feminine gender. This is something that a native English speaker may miss. But this is because the noun sun is masculine and the noun moon is feminine in Latin, in languages derived from Latin and in other languages, but not in English.

The reason we see such a multitude of female figures in the VM is because they are a representation of the stars, which is a feminine name. On the zodiacal pages each of the female figures also holds the drawing of a star to reinforce the representation of its meaning.

This iconographic reading, which is so simple, is the first step to understanding the Voynich.