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[Antonio García Jiménez]

In my last post I replied to R. Sale without realizing the subsequent posts of bi3mw and Barbrey.

The frescoes of the Schifanoia Palace in Ferrara show the astrology of the decans exposed by the work of Albumasar and by the Picatrix. But they are not exactly the Egyptian decans since the fusion with Greek astrology makes them completely different in their iconography although their meaning is the same: the power of the stars and their influence on terrestrial life. There is an extensive academic bibliography on all this that relates the iconography and meaning of the deans to hermeticism.

But what is interesting for Voynich purposes is the hermeticism related to myriogenesis, a system similar to that of the decans but referring to the influence of each degree of the Ecliptic. This system is seen in some of the works of Alfonso X the Wise, such as the lapidary.

What we see in the VM are the zodiacal signs with human figures with stars in each of the degrees of the Ecliptic, which has an obvious parallel with the hermetic myriogenesis, as for example described by the Roman astrologer Firmicus Maternal.