VMs f75r - Nymph Holding Spurtle

[Antonio García Jiménez]

I'm sorry to disagree with Koen, with whom I share other ideas. And I agree with Stolfi that the spurtle is a walking staff. On the first page of this thread, I already mentioned that it's a pilgrim's staff and included a comparative image.

These interpretive controversies regarding elements of the Voynich imagery recur time and again because, in my opinion, the intention is focused on isolated elements and overlooks the whole. You can't see the forest for the trees. In this case, we must examine the entire folio f75r, and what we see is a group of female figures sliding down from the roof of a tent, a tent that is repeated in other images in the codex and that we can reasonably interpret as the sky.

The iconographic interpretation of Quire 13 is extremely difficult, but it is the key to interpreting the entire book. The female figures are the same ones each holding a star in the zodiacal pages, and that's why I interpret the figures as personifications of the stars and that it is their influence that descends to Earth. This would be the reason why we see one of them with a pilgrim's staff, to symbolize the beginning of a journey.