27-09-2026, 10:21 PM
I am not clear on what you are calling fountains. I think you are talking about the arched or curved lines in the four corners of the page.
f85r2_f86v4_f86v6
I have no idea what they are. They are a little bit blue. They seem to originate from the deep blue around the sun in the center. They go out and arch over and then go back inside the outer circle of words. I guess "fountains" is as good a name for them as any.
The fountain in the upper right goes in the opposite direction (Clockwise) of the other three (Counterclockwise). Is there significance to this or did they just want more space for text for the person holding the spherical vial (or whatever it is)? Maybe they are just decoration and have no symbolic meaning. I don't remember seeing anything like them anywhere else in the manuscript. Something else to add to the mystery.
The blue around the sun is a mystery. Why would the sun be in water? Or, is the blue supposed to be sky (air) and not water? Fountains of air?
Having the sun in the center of f85r2 and the moon in the center of f86v4 makes me think the two pages are a pair of opposites -- but of what? Day/Night, Light/Dark, Life/Death, Youth/Age, Heaven/Hell?
The moon page also has four figures holding mysterious objects -- including one that looks like a spherical vial.
If the creators of the Voynich Manuscript were copying from other sources, they may not have copied exactly as presented in the originals. They may have copied different elements to craft their own story.
f85r2_f86v4_f86v6
I have no idea what they are. They are a little bit blue. They seem to originate from the deep blue around the sun in the center. They go out and arch over and then go back inside the outer circle of words. I guess "fountains" is as good a name for them as any.
The fountain in the upper right goes in the opposite direction (Clockwise) of the other three (Counterclockwise). Is there significance to this or did they just want more space for text for the person holding the spherical vial (or whatever it is)? Maybe they are just decoration and have no symbolic meaning. I don't remember seeing anything like them anywhere else in the manuscript. Something else to add to the mystery.
The blue around the sun is a mystery. Why would the sun be in water? Or, is the blue supposed to be sky (air) and not water? Fountains of air?
Having the sun in the center of f85r2 and the moon in the center of f86v4 makes me think the two pages are a pair of opposites -- but of what? Day/Night, Light/Dark, Life/Death, Youth/Age, Heaven/Hell?
The moon page also has four figures holding mysterious objects -- including one that looks like a spherical vial.
If the creators of the Voynich Manuscript were copying from other sources, they may not have copied exactly as presented in the originals. They may have copied different elements to craft their own story.