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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Within the Voynich imagery, the most mysterious element is the hundreds of female figures that fill several pages of the codex. Anyone who follows this thread on the forum knows that I maintain they are personifications of the fixed stars of the sky. And not just any stars from any constellation, but those of the zodiac, which are the ones that have a relationship with the natural cycle of life on Earth, of plants in particular, given that the Voynich herbal is related to the zodiacal section.

  Virtually all the female figures of the zodiac hold a star, which I believe is the strongest indication that they are one and the same. The fact that the figures are nude and have prominent bellies serves allegorically to indicate their role in the fertilization of the Earth.

   There are other elements that also serve the purpose of identifying the female figures with stars, such as the crowns and rings that some of them wear. These elements serve to allude metaphorically to the brilliance of the stars. There are three figures with crowns: in Cancer, Leo, and Libra. And three more with rings in f79v, f80v, and f82r. One might wonder why not all the female figures in the codex wear crowns and rings. I believe the author didn't need to add such extra detail. Simply placing those glittering elements on some of them would have been enough to identify them all.