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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Yes, Barbrey, I think we agree on some ideas, but there are others we don't. I already told you that I don't believe there's anything balneological or biological about the Voynich. That idea seems like a mirage to me, one that's easy to fall into. For me, it's all astrological. We see women bathing, but I think it's a way of representing that the stars bring water to the plants. Or perhaps the green color is an allegorical allusion to the plant world. The pipes and all the plumbing we see are a way of representing the channels through which the astral influence circulates.

  I'm pleased you said my thread was one of the first you started reading. You're alluding to my mention of the canopy of heaven. It's not my original idea. Others have seen it before, and I think it's a key image because we see it on the pages of the female figures and also on the Rosette page. In the first case, we clearly see the figures descending from the canopy, an allusion to them coming from heaven.

You ask me for my interpretation of the Rosette Page. For me, and I've said this before, it's a representation of the medieval universe. This universe was a kind of onion composed of several layers, superimposed spheres. Since this can't be represented, I believe what the authors did was spread the spheres over the surface of the parchment. There's a sphere where the castle is, representing the Earth, and then eight spheres, seven of the medieval planets, including the sun and the moon, and the central sphere is that of the fixed stars.