[split] Discussion about the word "Zodiac"

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Anton,
One of the interesting things about the Voynich diagrams relating to winds and stars is that they do not show any clear correlation to the usual "zodiac-planets-cardinal winds" mindset of the Latin European texts.  The so-called "zodiac" doesn't represent the zodiac creatures; there is no sign of the planets' inclusion apart from sun and moon - which seems to mean that astrology may not be a subject of the month-roundels as is usually presumed - and the winds on f.67v-1 are not the cardinal winds.
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Diane, you keep saying this but I'm not convinced it's true. Calling them zodiac figures is a convenience for most people, not a presumption of what the figures mean.

R. Sale has been talking about heraldry, not about it being astrology and I've seen many other discussions about them that have little or nothing to do with astrology. I wrote a blog about several of them representing cycles of life, with the only connection to astrology being that in the middle ages, some people believed that certain months were better for certain activities (like getting married, having children, etc.)—otherwise, I haven't talked about them having astrological implications other than their resemblance to zodiac symbols in shape and sequence.


Why not present your side without putting words in other people's mouths? I do not see researchers "usually" presuming that these wheels are astrological. I'm sure some do when they first see them, for obvious reasons, but I don't see any reason to fixate on people's first impressions. Once they study them, researchers make many different observations about the roundels that are not directly astrological.