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Re: VMs: Stars or No Stars
Hi, Florin
Thanks for your response! Don't worry; I bark, but
rarely do I bite. Smile.
I wonder about the 29 Pisces nymphs, too. The Julian
(Old Style) calendar used a simple four-year cycle for
Leap Year, while the Gregorian (New Style) uses a more
intricate system of calculating the Leap Year days.
Perhaps there is information here that can help us
date the document. Hmmm. I wonder, is it a Leap Year
document, or is it just constructed to account for
Leap Year? Would that explain the extra notes?
Different parts of Europe converted to the New
Calendar on different dates. For example, the
Catholic countries changed their calendar in 1582, but
Bohemia changed over in 1584. Protestant Germany, on
the other hand, did not undergo the same calendar
shift until 1700.
If the 29 nymphs indicate 29 corresponding degrees for
each of the days of the Pisces month, this suggests a
correspondence (no doubt this has been discussed at
length) between the nymphs and days of the year rather
than a correspondence between the nymphs and the
degrees of the Sun, which is a more usual application
in astrology.
Your ideas raise another question: we are missing two
signs, so what is the count of the total number of
nymphs in the Zodiac illustrations?
On a couple of the "signs", the nymphs are hard to
count because of the creases in the pages. Does
anyone have a good nymph "head count?"
The Sun moves just a little faster than a degree a day
through the 360 degrees of the Zodiac, so we have 360
degrees in the Zodiac, while we have 365 (and 1/4, for
Leap Year) days in the year. Because of this
discrepancy, I would be surprised to find 365 nymphs,
so I am curious.
Warmly,
Pam
--- fion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I made some notes regarding this topic a while ago,
> nothing
> conclusive, anyway here they are, largely unedited,
> although
> I've removed some of the nonsense:
>
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>
> f70v2 Pisces
>
> There is a seven-pointed star above the fish, with a
> Voynichese
> unique label (otolal); and another one below, with a
> letter (n???).
> Between the two fish there is a word in non-Voynich
> script (marC),
> whose strokes are thicker and more angular than the
> Voynichese label
> above.
>
> 16 of the star labels start with EVA "ok", 8 start
> with "ot",
> 2 start with "yt" --- and yet all are different.
>
> If the "otolal" is the name of the constellation why
> all of the others
> don't
> have any labels inside the innermost circle.
> What if the nymphs(29) are the month days
>
> 29 every other 4 years.
> Could be that the otolal means odd(29) as opposed to
> even(28) to indicate
> a bisect year.
> The other fish has also a star.
> Probably the interior stars are only decorations or
> indicate some extra
> days ...
> "zodiac" pages
>
> 1)70v1 aries(22Mar-20Apr) dark 5 + 10
> =15 noc(red)
> 1)71r aries(22Mar-20Apr) light 5 + 10
> =15 red(red)
> 2)71v taurus(21Apr-21May) light 5 + 10
> =15 red(pink)
> 2)72r1 taurus(21Apr-21May) dark 5 + 10
> =15 red,noc(pink)
> 3)72r2 gemini(22May-22Jun) 9 + 16 +
> )5=30
> green,blue,noc(orange)
> 4)72r3 cancer(23Jun-23Jul) 7 + 11 +
> 12=30 ?,noc(silver)
> 5)72v3 leo(24Jul-23Aug) 12 + 18
> =30 noc(yellow)
> +1 6)72v2 virgo(24Aug-23Aug) 12 + 18
> =30
> blue,noc(green,brown,blue)
> 7)72v1 libra(24Sep-23Oct) 10 + 20
> =30
> blue,noc(pink,blue)
> +1 8)73r scorpio(23Oct-22Nov) 10 + 16 +
> )4=30 ?,noc(dark red)
> 9)73v sagittarius(23Nov-22Dec) 10 + 16 +
> )4=30
> blue,noc(purple,dark blue)
> +2 12)70v2 pisces(20Feb-21Mar) 10 + 19
> =29 green,(sea
> green)
>
> missing 10)capricorn(23Dec-19Jan) and
> 11)aquarius(20Jan-19Feb)
> (..) colour usually associated with it.
>
> Patterns
> 22-20 5 + 10 15 !a
> 22-20 5 + 10 15 !b
> 21-21 5 + 10 15 @a
> 21-21 5 + 10 15 @b
> 22-22 9 + 16 + 5 30
> 23-23 7 + 11 + 12 30
> 24-23 12 + 18 30 #
> 24-23 12 + 18 30 #
> 24-23 10 + 20 30 # (there
> is a hole in inner
> circle)
> 23-22 10 + 16 + 4 30 $
> 23-22 10 + 16 + 4 30 $
> 23-19
> 20-19
> 20-21 10 + 19 29
>
> Probably on the folio with the hole, the pattern was
> supposed to be :
> 24-23 12 + 18 , but couldn't put 12 nymphs due to
> lack of space.
> Also 22-20 and 21-21 were supposed to be 2
> different patterns not
> 5+10 , but probably splitting in 15-15 rule had more
> importance.
> Months:
> Jan Aug Sep Oct Nov
> Dec
> 31, 28/29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31
>
>
> Text analysis
>
> otolal
> also found as "otol al" in 70r2 and 71r.
>
> --------------------
>
> Regards,
> Florin
>
>
> PS. This is the first post ... have mercy :)
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