I’ve finally done something that should have been obvious, but I just didn’t think of it– on the map of Europe with the pentagram I have added the color of the moon over the place name.
This clearly indicates the drawing path for the pentagram, and indicates it is for “active spirit banishing”, whatever that might mean.
The clear pattern also supports my decoding of the labels for the place names.
For more on the map, see “Folio f67r2”, above.
The page for f67r2 above has been updated. New versions of the Interpretation file and the Conjunctions file have been posted.
This folio takes the waxing gibbous phase of the moon when concurrent with the Aries/Taurus part of the sky and makes it circular. It is a recurring event.
This is also the connection between the event in the sky at 07Tau on 7 December 1486 and the earth: the star labels are the “realm of the stars”, the moons the “realm of the planets”, and inside the circle is “the circles of the world”.
The twelve words just below the moons were decoded as places in Europe, and a map showing them has been added at the bottom. Lines drawn between them form a hexagon whose center point is Vienna, Austria.
The meaning of the words below them has not been determined.
In my label work I have found there are three sets of values for the labels, but none work on the regular text.
Below are the values for what I have designated as Set 1. These were the first I had luck with on f68r3, and as can be seen, are not complete. Set 2 is completed, but Set 3 still has 5 values missing.
Note that “4o” can have a value of “AL”, the beginning of many star names, and that EVA iiin is “IUM”, a common Latin ending.
As has been determined by others, it is not a simple substitution. The multiple values for some letters follows Philip Neal’s work. My reasoning is: if the Voynich letters are interchangeable, the plaintext values should be as well. This raises the “degrees of freedom”, but I will address that later.
I have, at this writing, nearly 100 labels cracked. So far, star labels are star names, many archaic (as might be expected). On f67r2 the twelve words under the moons are country names, eight of which no longer exist.
Below are my interpretations of the Astro Section folios (subject to change, of course):
f67r1 Total solar eclipse in Pisces seen in London 16 March 1485
f67r2 Astrological interpretation of f68r3
f67v1 Tycho’s supernova Nov 1572 (anomalous)
f67v2 Planetary conjunctions seen from London
Upper left (triangle) AM 30 Dec 1484
Upper right (square) PM 15 May 1486
Lower right (checkmark) PM 24 Jan 1494
Lower left (square in T-O Map) AM 29 Nov 1483
f68r1 Great Comet 18 July 1533 2:00 AM London
f68r2 Comet C/1490 Y1 21 January 1491
f68r3 24 hours before the moon occludes the Pleiades, 7 Dec 1486 (date uncertain; this configuration happens ~9 times a century)
f68v1 Total solar eclipse16 March 1485 emphasizing the Moon’s role
f68v2 Total solar eclipse16 March 1485 drawing of the solar corona
f68v3 Diagram of how the Universe rotates around the earth
f69r Interpretation of the Astrological Lunar Cycle related to f68r3
f69v Not yet identified
f70r1 Not yet identified
f70r2 Total solar eclipse16 March 1485 related to the moon and solar corona
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