17-04-2026, 04:06 PM
If I look north from Madrid towards the North Star, I do indeed see circumpolar stars moving counterclockwise. But from my latitude (40º N), if I look south, following the ecliptic, I see only an arc of the celestial sphere and I see the stars moving clockwise, from east to west. The stars of the zodiac are not circumpolar. They rise and set on my horizon.
The female figures in the Voynich Manuscript march clockwise and carry a star to their right. From whatever angle you view the circle, they always move clockwise. And this makes sense, because if the codex was created around the Alps, say between 45° and 50° latitude, the authors, when looking at the zodiacal stars, saw them moving in this direction: from East to West.
The female figures in the Voynich Manuscript march clockwise and carry a star to their right. From whatever angle you view the circle, they always move clockwise. And this makes sense, because if the codex was created around the Alps, say between 45° and 50° latitude, the authors, when looking at the zodiacal stars, saw them moving in this direction: from East to West.