RE: ROS - does the bottom left echo the centre?
Barbrey > 13-08-2020, 04:23 AM
Re ROS, is the main rosette related to bottom left?
I think everything is related to that middle sphere! But this is a question I've been puzzling over as well. Unlike another poster in this thread, I do think numerology is heavily at play in the rosette and possibly used if this is a cipher too. Each sphere's centre seems to have a particular number representing it, or at least some do, like 4, 7, 8, . I used numerology on some of them too, and sometimes each has more than one number.
For instance, the "o", top right, which represents spirit in my scheme, and therefore possibly 0, has 37 moons lining its centre, which gave me 3+7=10, 1+0=1. So it is represented as zero (space) or 1 depending on its use as symbol/category or number/letter. On the far right, top, we have a c shape spiral in the middle consisting (if I read this correctly), of 11 words. 1+1=2, which is actually the number I had already assigned it. The 13 at the middle of that row would be 1+3=4, consistent with elements, and 3x4=12 with the zodiac, and 1+2=3 with the trinity or the heavens. Confusing!
On the bottom right we have our 4 shape, but that o in the middle makes it a 5. (That o shooting out the five pipes I think is adding to these elements). It's possible this is our 4o, notice the tipped 4 pointing in the direction of o. 4o could stand for aether. I believe the number 5 is above the 4, representing the body or flesh of man, animal, so wouldn't consider it the "r" shape just yet.
8 left middle as immortal soul appears to be just 8 - I see nothing hidden. But that might be because the soul is not actually physical but invisible already so nothing more needs to be hidden.
Similarlly, bottom middle, we have our 7 petaled flower but it has a c shape in the middle, making it also a possible 9, depending once again on symbol/sign, abbreviation or letter/number. I believe this position is the symbol for reincarnation of plants, animals and humzn bodies, hence why 9 can appear fore and aft so frequently in words and lines.
But now we come to our sixes and I have to admit to some frustration. The bottom left is definitely my best candidate for 6. The Last Judgment in Christianity, or where soul and body part ways in the hermeticum and the soul either rests, returns upward to o, or is shrived of its sins by daimons and continues on its way to reincarnation (I still think that volcano portal is a cloud car!). This judgment space to me is possibly supported by the L shape outside it, which among other things could be an L, the sign for Libra, and thus weighing the soul for judgment. I think the sign for this sphere could be the backward s.
But the middle! To me this is the microcosm of the hermeticum, as above so below, etc., so every number from the outside sphere could possibly be represented here. And they are if we take the minims, o's and chevrons into account. Or not. My most likely candidate would be ten, as that represents completeness or perfection. But I'm still wrestling with it.
It is possible, in line with your noticing the similar sixes and centres, that because six is kind of the last stop before reincarnation or resurrection, that the middle begins with thwt number. I don't know.
Honestly, for someone with no interest in astrology, magic, numerology a few months ago, I rather wish I'd never seen the Voynich! But it is kind of fascinating how entrenched these systems were in medieval and renaissance times in other manuscripts, and likely this one.