Re: VMs: Hello and Voynich Manuscript

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

> I started by choosing a section of the document to look at,
> and seeing as I don't know a lot about plants, well not the
> latin named variety, and I have never believed in astrology,
> I chose the cosmology section.

IMO, trying to understand the medieval and early modern periods without 
understanding astrology will likely only give you half a picture - 
astrological themes runs through wars, religion, governance, weddings, 
medicine, food, architecture, etc. You don't have to believe in it to study 
it! :-)

> Anyway, while reading through this interesting subject, I noticed
> an interesting photo of the horoscope of King Henry VI, (Page 127)
> which has some very similar symbols as the Voynich manuscript.
> I then came across a photo of a Zodiac Man that had numbers down
> the side of a picture of the man. (Page 120)

Does the book give references for where these two manuscripts are held?

> While I do not know enough about astrology to be able to decode them all,
> I have seen the character P (Frogguy lj and qj) used in some of the photos
> from the book I have read, and this is used for shorthand of parallel
> (Same Hemisphere) and cP (Frogguy cljt and cqjt) for contraparallel
> (Opposite Hemisphere).  I have also seen H (Frogguy lp and qp)
> although I do not know what this stands for.

Do you mean (astrologically speaking):-
Parallel = same hemisphere = conjunction or combustion?
Contraparallel = opposite hemisphere = opposition?

> What is the possibility that the writing in the Voynich manuscript does not
> actually form part of a language or coded language but are actually
> astrological/astronomical readings or some form of horoscope?
> This would certainly explain the repetitive nature of the writing and
> characters.

But note that any sequence of data - numbers, measurements, times, etc - 
could potentially give the same kinds of coding artefacts.

I'll post again later on astrological shorthand.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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