The Role of the Queens in the Voynich

Manuscript
Joannes Richter

Fig. 1 The upper class of the nymphs may be the rainbows

Abstract
The role of the queens in the Voynich Manuscript may be interpreted from the drawings, which may
be helpful to understand the architecture of the text.
Studying the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript we may identify a few undressed “nymphs” as
queens or at least nymphs who belonged to the upper class of the “nymphs”.
Apart from the nymphs with crowns I identified a few nymphs with bulbs, orbs, garlands or rings,
which could not be identified as royal regalia.
The upper class of the nymphs (the “queens”) may be interpreted as the most important class of the
rain categories, which played the main role in the fertility.
Nymphs with rings in page f75v, respectively f80r
The nymph in the sketch on page f75v is carrying a garland or ring in her right hand. This nymph is
taller than the neighboring nymphs, which may indicate a royal or higher hierarchy.
The nymph in the sketch on page f80r is carrying a spinning top as a tool in her right hand.

Fig. 2: Nymph with a ring Fig. 3 Nymph with a spinning top

(Voynich page f75v) (Voynich page f80r )

Nymphs with rings in page F79v

The nymphs in the sketches on page F79v are carrying a crucifix, respectively a ring in their left
hands.
The nymph with the garland or ring seems to be taller than the neighboring nymphs, which may
indicate a royal or higher hierarchy. This nymph also might be wearing a crown.

Fig. 5 Nymph with a ring or garland

Fig. 4 Nymph with a cross (Voynich page f79v)
(Voynich page f79v)
Bathing queens (f80r)
The following nymphs are wearing their crowns on theirs heads, which may have motivated some
authors to title the page f80r “The bathing queens”. The crowns may be identified by their color or
the ornament.

Fig. 7 Nymph with a crown Fig. 6 Nymph with a crown

(Voynich page f80r ) (Voynich page f80r )

Another sketch in the Voynich page f80r seems to display a nymph with a “ring” or garland in her
right hand. The tool in her hand cannot be identified as an insigny, crown or jewellery.

Fig. 8 Nymph with a “ring”

(Voynich page f80r)
The nymph with a ring in her left hand on page f80v
The folowing sketch on page f80v seems to carry a red ring in her left hand. There is no evidence to
recognize the object as an royal insigny, orb, garland, jewelery or tool.

Fig. 9 Nymph with a ring

(Voynich page f80v)
The two queens on page f82r
The following queens may have been labeled as “olko. ky=” and at the right side “sokoly=”. The
queen at the right side may carry an orb (or a tool) in her right hand.

Fig. 10 Two queens in the sketch of page f82r (at the left: “olko. ky=” with their crown
and at the right side “sokoly=” with a crown and an orb or a ring) on Voynich page f82r

Maybe the yellow (blonde) hair of the queen “olko. ky=” at the left had been chosen to contrast to
the blue (dark) hair of the queen “sokoly=” at the right side. In a joint both colors yellow and blue
result in a green mixture.
Traces of the names “olko. Ky=” and “sokoly=” may be found in:
page parameters EVA-text
f75v .P4.32;H qokeedy.qokol.olkol-
f80r .P.18;H p!!!cheol!kal.dal.korchy.qotey.qoty.rchedy.qokal.olkol.Shedy.chty-
f81v .X.1;Hf81v otoin.olkol=
f82r .L2.8;H olko.ky=
f82v .P.33;H sol.chey.r.alchey.chol.olkol.chcKhy.dal!chcKhy.olkai!n.olkeeyr-
f82v .L3.8;H olkol=
f101v2 .R2.6;H olkor=
Table 1 Traces of the naming core for “olko. ky=”
 page parameters EVA-text
f78r .P.9;H qoky.okeedy.Sheety.qoteedy.otey.ShcKhedy.sokol.or-
f82r .L2.9;H sokoly=
Table 2 Traces of the naming core for “sokoly=”

The queen of the rainbow

The upper class of the nymphs may be the “Queen of the rainbows”, who may be named “olko”
(EVA-name: olko.ky or olko[l]) in which “ky” represents the “queen”.
The Queen “olkol” (the central person of the three nymphs) is the closest nymph to the 2 rainbows.

Fig. 11 The upper class of the nymphs may be the rainbows

The rainbows may have played the main role in the pantheon of the nymphs. In the sketch the rain
was supposed to be flowing from both ends of the rainbows.
The green tool on page f82v
The sketch on page f82v may be a large scale section of the ring, which seems to be a 2-sectional
water pipe. The green “bow” may also represent a “rainbow”, which is filled with fertile, “sweet”
water.

Fig. 12 The nymph with a green tool labeled “okalchy=” on page f82v

The orb, bulb or ring on page f84r

The nymph in this sketch at the left side of the page f84r seems to have two “left” arms. The “most
left” arm is carrying a bulb or a ring. In this drawing the artist may have made an anatomic error.

Fig. 13 Nymph with an orb or tool on page f84r

Overview of nymphs with crowns or tools
Most of the crowns on the heads of the nymphs may be identified as regalia. The 7 tools which are
carried in the hands of the nymphs cannot really be identified. Only the cross may be identified as a
crucifix. The sceptre in page f75r may also be a stick.

Voynich Title according to the Carried regalia, garlands Double Number

Page “Voynich information or tools sized of nymphs
browser” nymph
sceptre cross garland crown
or tool
f75r 1 1 13
f75v Ten showers 1 1 19
f76r 0
f76v 4
f77r 4
f77v Kidneys and bladder 6
f78r 15
f78v 9
f79r 7
f79v Mermaid and Big Fish 1 1 4
f80r Bathing queens 1 2 16
f80v 1 12
f81r 13
f81v 16
f82r 1 2 15
f82v 1 8
f83r 5
f83v 4
f84r Covered pool 1 33
f84v 15
Overview in the range of 1 1 7 4 2 218
the pages f75r- f84v
Table 3 Overview of the Biological section (nymphs' stories)
Summary
The role of the queens in the Voynich Manuscript may be interpreted from the drawings, which may
be helpful to understand the architecture of the text.
Studying the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript we may identify a few undressed “nymphs” as
queens or at least nymphs who belonged to the upper class of the “nymphs”.
Apart from the nymphs with crowns I identified a few nymphs with bulbs, orbs, garlands or rings,
which could not be identified as royal regalia.
The upper class of the nymphs (the “queens”) may be interpreted as the most important class of the
rain categories, which played the main role in the fertility.
Contents
Abstract.................................................................................................................................................1
Nymphs with rings in page f75v, respectively f80r.........................................................................2
Nymphs with rings in page F79v.....................................................................................................2
Bathing queens (f80r)......................................................................................................................3
The nymph with a ring in her left hand on page f80v......................................................................4
The two queens on page f82r...........................................................................................................5
The queen of the rainbow................................................................................................................6
The green tool on page f82v............................................................................................................7
The orb, bulb or ring on page f84r...................................................................................................7
Overview of nymphs with crowns or tools......................................................................................8
Summary...............................................................................................................................................9