09-09-2025, 11:50 AM
(09-09-2025, 08:03 AM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There's no text, nothing to read. If the script has never been deciphered, it's for this simple reason. There's no language, just successions of groups of astronomical symbols.
I've tried to explain that this codex belongs to an area of medieval culture where astrology was a predominant science. It wasn't marginal at all; even the Church hierarchy believed in it. In the mindset of the Voynich authors, each herb we see receives its medicinal or magical virtues under a certain astronomical configuration.
Compared to my understanding, your point of view is from the other side of the universe...
In contrast to you, I see no durable elements of "astrology" in the VMS at all. Where are they?
The "zodiacs" are doubled, but some show double goats, not aries or capricorn.
What "zodiac" is iguana?
What "zodiac" is "ugly leopard"?
In which zodiac are pisces joined to stars, not to each other?
Why does not any "astrological zodiac" show at least one of the typical star constellations, but just rings of girls with single stars?
Why is a "moon sequence" not a moon sequence, but just a repeating change of half-moon and something else?
So if VMS is astrological, where is the astrology...?
Regarding your first and last sentence: there might be some astronomical content, but not in the herbs or the zodiacs.
And of course, there is a language and much text to read...

