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Voynich manuscript decoded 202212/19/2023 ![]() ![]() (The Albigensian Crusade, Jonathan Sumption, 1999, pg 72-73). Some of the noblemen apparently fought back at first, at the risk of being excommunicated. There was apparently A LOT of cultural exchange going on all around Europe, which included an influx of expensive Islamic artworks into the houses of noblemen. Historically, we also know there have been people who oppose such acts of mass violence, and will try to help the victims however they can. Historically, there was quite the religious war going on between the catholic churches and anybody that they didn't like (crusade anybody?). The last point of interest I offer is this: why would a group of Europeans practicing christian religion of some kind, want their religious info written in code, in a non-european language (assuming a Cathar wanted this written). This also helps explain the unrealistic looking artworks in the manuscript. For some, any image that was too lifelike threatened to encourage idol worship."-from the article linked above. ![]() The detail? "In Islamic art, the accurate representation of living beings was controversial, since it was believed that only God could create life. ![]() The article I've linked speaks of heavy Islamic Influence, especially including writings in Arabic, which has a rich history of multiple types of scripts (which is compared to our modern days fonts), and one specific detail mentioned very much reassured me that this decoding may actually be legit. Since posting earlier, I've been reading through historical context of the approximate age of the physical book. Right now his brief attempt to do that seems like mostly a failure, but he uses that failure as if it is a success! If this historian actually wants to make his case, he should scrap his grand theory of the manuscript and instead dial in specifically on testable hypotheses, eg, applying his decoding scheme to a few specific pages like the zodiac, and then seeing if it coherently applies. But when you look at his paper, even the term “Cathar” is being used for multiple Voynich words. But it has to work out! It doesn’t appear to be working out, but based on a few similarities he’s jumping into grand “decipherings” of sentences, and even creating a big theory of Catharism. That poster is wrong about the process, however-this strategy is indeed an empirical and sensible approach. His strategy for deciphering, as the other poster noted, is like Bax’s. His zodiac proposals even he says are mostly not perfect matches… if the most testable and simple translations (one word, next to a drawing) aren’t fully coherent, why should we think a full translation of sentences is? What? And he says the text often doesn’t line up with the images - that should be a red flag. His translations often seem to be playing mad libs-he identifies a few words like “soul, leave, join” and then all of a sudden has a complete sentence. For example, Voynich words need to be split up to fit his scheme, and multiple letters code for the same sound. I scanned through it and immediately found things that jumped out as huge reaches. The stars have been heavily charted by humans for a LONG time. So the known information is pretty heavily layered and backed up by multiple cultures across multiple eras. ![]() The key piece of information that led to the beginnings of the translation was rooted in astrology, which while not a science in today's world, is the ancient equivalent of astronomy. The article talks about a code breaking technique from WWII being used to begin the codex identification. I know AI has been touted as having "decoded the manuscript" before this one, but they didn't get anything useful out of that attempt. The article does go on to show this short hand having been figured out. One example of these patterns would be the character at the beginning of several "words" that seemed to change from one to the next, as though it were some kind of short hand. ĭo you have evidence or some kind of logical reasoning? I've got a pretty good pattern recognition part of my brain, and they did pull a lot of patterns I was already putting together for future tinkering. This is the NSA's report on their computational attack on the VM.Įvery few months there's a new article on how the VM has been deciphered. Listed here are websites of some notable VM researchers. You can find a high resolution scan of the entire manuscript as well as some tools using the following links. A subreddit for those interested in studying and especially solving the mystery of the Voynich manuscript. ![]()
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