No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

I am not saying that replacing glyphs with letters of the alphabet is not useful for analysis. What I'm saying is that by doing so there is an obvious risk of assuming that script is a language. I believe that thinking that we are dealing with a language, whether natural or encrypted, is the greatest prejudice that exists in Voynich research. It is very logical that we, men of the 21st century, think this way, but with a very rare codex from the 15th century it is not only possible but probable that there is another way of interpreting the script.

There is a clear intention in the design of the glyphs by the authors. There is a clear symmetry in several of them, for example in the gallows and the benches. It is as if the authors thought in two halves, in a mirror. That's why I think they are reproducing positions and objects on a sphere.

If I believe that the script is an astronomical notation system, it is for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the codex is not a simple herbal, it is an astrological herbal.