Gemini crossed arms imagery

[-JKP-]

I'm going to add this image here, although it is too late for the Voynich, just because I see several parallels with the Gemini illustration:

(Rosarium Philosophorum, Frankfurt, 1550, now at Glasgow University. Woodcut colored by Adam McLean, image from his website.)

What I find interesting is that we have the idea of a handshake with additional crossing going on.
Also notice how the Moon's dress hangs much lower than the Sun's feet, just like in the Voynich illustration.

In this 1578 Czech version by Jaroš Griemiller (National Library of the Czech Republic, image from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), the crossed arms thing is even more visible, although the proportions of the characters are obviously different:




I wonder what the inspiration for the 1550 version may have been. Perhaps it can be found in an earlier depiction of the alchemical marriage between the male and female principles?

LOL!! Before I saw the caption, as soon as I saw the first image, I said to myself, that's alchemical symbolism. It's all there, the sun and moon, male and female, three colored flowers (with the red and white being male and female), the descending bird (condensation from the distillation process), the six-pointed star.

Much of the alchemical symbology is actually pretty easy and surprisingly consistent for something that was supposedly "secret".