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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I share some of your ideas because they seem well-founded, but all this stuff about Chinese theory seems like complete nonsense to me. A mysterious European traveler who spent years in an Asian country was told about medicinal and herbal books. Someone dictated their contents to him, and he invented a new writing system to record it phonetically. Upon returning to his country, he asked someone to copy it...

   I'm sorry. I can't take this seriously. It seems like a good script for an Indiana Jones movie. Didn't it occur to this mysterious traveler, during all that time, to make drawings of the oriental medicinal plants that he was told about and that they would surely show him?

   The problem with your theory, like others that focus obsessively on the script, is that it disregards the Voynich imagery. And the images are an indispensable part of understanding the codex. If I see female figures with their feet and hands inside tubes, I have to ask myself what that means; I have to try to give an answer.

   I do believe that the script is a secondary element of the codex, but I do believe that it serves a purpose, which is to reinforce the astrological content of the book. To me, they are groups of astronomical symbols arranged in such a way that they must have some astrological meaning that I am still unaware of.