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omid wrote:I am curious enough to put this put there and ask for feedback. The APOD shows a picture from the manuscript and says it is somehow related to the sun. Does anyone else disagree with this? To me, it very much looks like the moon. If you look at the lines that are drawn on the figure in the center, I see the phases of the moon. That's just my take, anyone else care to share why it is thought of as the sun...

• 1) the rays coming out
  2) the 12 Zodiac directions
  3) the Ottoman Falnama sun face:
  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript wrote:
<<In late 2003, Zbigniew Banasik of Poland proposed that the Voynich Manuscript is plaintext written in the Manchu language and gave a proposed incomplete translation of the first page of the manuscript.>>

mcs wrote:Noticed the similarities between drawings and handwriting in the Voynich versus the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci?

Where is Leonardo's childhood and apprenticeship work?

We think of him as the most finished of artists and inventors, but there is no trail of how he came to be so accomplished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Most_Excellent_Painters,_Sculptors,_and_Architects wrote:
<<_The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times_ is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most- read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "one of the founding texts in art history".>>

Since twelve synodic months (354 days) are about eleven days shorter than the solar year (365¼ days), a thirteenth moon accumulates roughly every three years. For the cultures that attributed lunar months to agricultural seasons, this thirteenth blue moon created a potentially catastrophic problem.

Without the insertion of an intercalary period of extra days added to the calendar to account for the difference between the solar and lunar cycles, the seasons would arrive “earlier” with each passing year, resulting in a disjunction between the months and the solar periods they are intended to approximate. Important agricultural events would then occur out-of-season (i.e., harvesting or planting too early). The ability to calculate and insert intercalary periods is essential in all lunisolar calendars to maintain the anticipatory nature of the calendar, which otherwise would become random and chaotic. For early man, knowledge of this intercalary period was a source of esoteric knowledge guarded by the religious-political elite and was disseminated to the populace during luni-solar festivals as a means to re-assert the power of the ruling elite over the cosmos.

desaesed wrote:Sagittarius (73v) is the last sign shown, but the page previous to it has a figure that definitely does not resemble the scorpion. An extra diagram over by Taurus is possibly Capricorn, misplaced.

ewa wrote:There are 12 months. The one on the left with darker ink is otkogdab (october).

• *OTKOGA* : *AFTER* (Macedonian)
  *DAB* : *OAK* (Macedonian)
  
  *OTKOG-DAB* : *AFTER-OAK* (Macedonian)
  
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Goddess wrote:
The White Goddess - Celtic Tree Calendar
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Beth (Birch)    December 24 to January 20
Luis (Rowan)    January 21 to February 17
Nion (Ash)      February 18 to March 17
Fearn (Alder)   March 18 to April 14
Saille (Willow) April 15 to May 12
Uath (Hawthorn) May 13 to June 9

Duir (Oak)      June 10 to July 7

Tinne (Holly)   July 8 to August 4
Coll (Hazel)    August 5 to September 1
Muin (Vine)     September 2 to September 29
Gort (Ivy)      September 30 to October 27
Ngetal (Reed)   October 28 to November 24
Ruis (Elder)    November 25 to December 22

December 23 is not ruled by any tree for it is the traditional day
of the proverbial "Year and a Day" in the earliest courts of law.>>