It seems that the evaluation of VMs 'labels' varies in different situations. When 'labels' are found with nymphs, they look like potential 'names', but what do the nymphs represent? When they are found with stars however, it seems they can only represent stars. So, when there is a cluster of stars represented and given a 'label' or name, then it represents a cluster of stars. Whatever 'label' that is associated with it is another matter.
Reading the end of the previous Post #31, the word that came to mind was 'corona', the Latin word for crown. Perhaps there was some obscure dialect in which this is the Voynichese word for crown. Forget the whole seven sisters' mythos and reinterpret it according to the same standards as the medieval bestiaries did with the pelican. The one apparent structure that the VMs sky contains is the holy crown. This from an artistic astronomer who omitted all the planets from the VMs representation of the cosmos and put a headband on the sun.
This was an era in which the ongoing influence of Mariology was quite potent.
Reading the end of the previous Post #31, the word that came to mind was 'corona', the Latin word for crown. Perhaps there was some obscure dialect in which this is the Voynichese word for crown. Forget the whole seven sisters' mythos and reinterpret it according to the same standards as the medieval bestiaries did with the pelican. The one apparent structure that the VMs sky contains is the holy crown. This from an artistic astronomer who omitted all the planets from the VMs representation of the cosmos and put a headband on the sun.
This was an era in which the ongoing influence of Mariology was quite potent.