Cathar Symbolism

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	For no good reason, I set up the following web page:

Cathar Symbolism
http://www2.micro-net.com/~ixohoxi/cathar/Catharsym.html

	The only thing even remotely Voynich-like are the
rosettes.  The crude graffiti shown can hardly be
compared to the complex rosettes of the VMs.  I suppose
that they might have had more artistic rosettes,
although I haven't seen any.  I only show a graffito
for the tau with a solar circle on top, but Richard
Shand has on his website a medal or coin with this
emblem that is not crude at all.  However, I really
don't think so...

	On another Cathar website I found an interesting bit
of info:

Les Cathares
http://www.multimania.com/cathares/

	"The Italian dualists were also pursued since the
middle of the XIIIth century.  The first burnings at
the stake took place in 1270.  The refuges of Lombardy
and central Italy thus became more and more uncertain
for the Cathar exiles from Languedoc and their local
co-religionists.

	"In Italy, the last sentence condemning dualist
heretics to burn at the stake is dated 1412, about a
century after the death of the last parfait of
Languedoc."

	The most definite date I've seen for this.  At least
half a century before the VMs.  

Dennis