No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

You keep talking about text as if it were already established that the script was a text. You do it instinctively, without thinking, as many people interested in the Voynich do, but the fact that the script is a text that can be read is something that has not been proven.

  To your question about whether I still think the same as I did eight years ago, I say yes, fundamentally, with some slight variations. For me, the glyphs we see are astronomical symbols, specifically the sun, the moon, and the fixed stars and their different positions along the ecliptic circle. I don't know how the authors group the symbols the way they do, but in any case, it's not about reading but about interpreting.

  What I insist on time and again is that the script is not the important thing about the Voynich; it is merely a complement to the message of the iconography. And the message is the power of the stars over plants and over life on Earth in general. This is pure medieval thinking. It's nothing original.