05-01-2026, 11:16 PM
(05-01-2026, 10:34 AM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think people aren't very aware of the importance of astrology in the Voynich. It is now a pseudoscience, but for centuries it was believed in and taught in universities. That there is astrology in the Voynich Manuscript is obvious simply by looking at the zodiacal section and the so-called astronomical diagrams, which are actually astrological, such as the one on folio f67v2.
Of course people know there is astrology in the Voynich, but I insist they are not aware of how the belief in celestial influences shaped people's knowledge in the past.
I like to use the example of the seasons. We are currently in winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and we all know that the change of seasons is due to the tilt of the Earth's axis. But for people in the Middle Ages it was winter because the sun was in the sign of Capricorn. The sun received the cold quality of the stars in this constellation.
I give this example only to help people think differently, because I believe that we approach the study of the Voynich without realizing that what we see in this codex belongs to a human mentality very different from our own.
We can easily identify the connection to astrology, but the problem is finding absolutely identifiable features and text that is absolutely related to the drawing and then ideally in multiple drawings for confirmation of the correlation.
There are dials with 4 labels, 8 labels. Are these seasons, cardinal directions, gods, phases of the moon? We see stars with labels. Are these names roman gods names that they used for stars, names from some other pantheon, or entirely unknown names? There are no constellations.
I find it interesting that there seems to be no Christian iconography or symbolism. It's all so imprecise that there is no clear meaning for the details.

