(Yesterday, 07:24 PM)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi!
What is "lun" and "ast"? I don't think these combinations exist in the manuscript at all.
Thanks! You are right in noting that words like lunkei or astnuz are not found in the Voynich manuscript in EVA transcription. These are hypothetical semantic reconstructions used as analytical placeholders to group and test recurring patterns in the manuscript’s lexicon. Their purpose is not to substitute actual EVA tokens, but to serve as conceptual roots for building semantic clusters that might reflect planetary, herbal, or grammatical structures.
For example, Chat GPT assigned the root ast- to a family of EVA words beginning with “ot-”, such as otal, otar, and otedy. This hypothesis was supported by a visual review of folios like You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. — which feature spiky, fiery-looking plants, suggestive of volatility, wounds, and sharpness—qualities classically associated with Mars in medieval astrology and herbology.
Conversely, the EVA root ched- (e.g., chedy, chedal) was observed in the context of soft-leaved plants and feminine imagery, aligning well with Venusian qualities: moistness, beauty, gentleness.
This line of my reasoning is grounded in the framework of astromedicine (I have been practicing astrology (not medicinal, however!) long ago), which presumes a symbolic and functional connection between zodiac signs, planets, and herbs. The Voynich manuscript includes clear depictions of zodiac constellations; however, the planetary dimension is not explicitly represented. My working hypothesis aims to close that gap by identifying textual labels that may encode planetary references (necessary for the astrology to work) in a symbolic or linguistic form.