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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I said before that the female figures were not inside barrels but tubes, at the beginning of the tubes that, starting from the sphere of the fixed stars, travel through the medieval universe until reaching Earth. The medieval mindset conceived of the universe as an onion of superimposed layers, of solid crystalline spheres that light had to pass through. That's why we see the tubes. For the authors of the Voynich, it was the way light could travel.

   On folio f78r, we clearly see these tubes and the fluid flowing through them, which originates from these strange structures symbolizing the sphere of the fixed stars. The structure is shown twice to suggest that the light comes from different parts of the sky. Beneath the tubes, we see a group of female figures, and further down, we see them again. It's not that the fluid is falling on them; they are the fluid, they are the representation of starlight. We see how the blue fluid of the sky has turned green, in what seems to be a metaphor for how light gives plants their green color. 

   This is how the medieval mindset works and how abstract concepts are represented through images.