Observations on the Visual and Functional Structure of the Voynich Manuscript
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Yes, it could certainly be rainwater being collected into drainage systems.

What leads me to think in this direction is the way the water is visually represented. The outflowing water is consistently drawn with vertical lines and small marks suggesting movement, while larger bodies or masses of water are often depicted as cloud-like shapes.

This same visual convention for flowing water appears repeatedly in different folios, which makes me think it is intentional rather than generic rainfall. That said, I agree that a natural interpretation is also possible.


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In these four images you can see an example of how a mass of water is consistently represented in the same way, using cloud-like shapes rather than linear flows.
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RE: Observations on the Visual and Functional Structure of the Voynich Manuscript - by emanuele.pegorin - 09-02-2026, 07:01 PM

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