Three-section orbs

[Linda]

One thing I've long wondered about is a possible relationship between the Voynich 'cosmos' illustration and the rosettes folio.

Nor do I. In the rosettes, 4 circles directly connect to the middle, whereas 4 have features that point toward it but don’t directly connect. I’ve always felt there was a correspondence, but can only guess at what it might be, ie. phenomenal vs  ephemeral influences. This is because I think the entire middle diagram works outward from the earth to the celestial, and the 8 outer spheres are details. 

The stars in the lake in the central diagram, I believe to be a reflection of the night sky, which is what you would see looking up into the canopy of heaven directly above. The underside, if you will. So to me there is no sky in the middle of the earth; it’s just water ((or the water of life).

There is definitely an “as above, so below”motif to the rosettes page,imo,  but that interpretation depends upon how you orient the spheres around it.

I was thinking about the four and four...I think the four not connected might represent things so big that everyone knows or talks about them, so you would still get it from the four connections due to the pathways between the others. In my view, two seem to be volcanoes, one perhaps a monsoon, and the other seems to denote the taking of Ceuta. 

That is interesting about the lake idea but why make it float between the pillars? It is different than the cosmos firmament, i was thinking it was more similar, but in comparing them, I think the rosettes one is more ephemeral, but at the same time, closer to earth, given it is not above the more earthly seeming elements but floating amongst the tips. The collective consciousness of the world, perhaps, the depths of knowledge. That it doesn't fully cover the base might mean we don't yet know everything, that not everyone has access to all the knowledge, perhaps. Only higher ups can access it directly, and only parts of it, have to get to another silo of information to get more access. Are these pillars libraries? Repositories of knowledge?