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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I've spent years trying to convince people that there's no biological or balneological section in the Voynich. That it's just an illusion, because the hundreds of female figures we see are simply anthropomorphic representations of the zodiacal stars. It is the same iconographic resource used in the codex with the sun and the moon, drawn with human faces.

   Looking at Quire 13 it is difficult to reach that conclusion, but the female figures we see here are the same ones we see on the zodiacal pages, where the fact that each one carries a star in her hand is a powerful indication, given that the figures form a constellation in the sky.

    We see some zodiac signs like Pisces and Scorpio also holding stars. No one will think that they are two fish and a scorpion playing with stars. Everyone understands that they are representations of constellations in the sky. The same is true of the Virgo constellation, which also holds a star. But in this case, it's a figure that, apart from the dress, has the same features as the female figures surrounding it. When we see Virgo, we see a clothed woman, but no one would guess she's a real woman.

    The female zodiac figures occupy 30 degrees of each sign, but they hold stars to represent that each of those degrees is occupied by a star in the celestial sphere. They are not real women either.