14-07-2026, 01:19 AM
If you look at this section of the map, it looks like the classic medieval T and O maps which trace their providence all the way back to the ancient Babylonian Mappa mundi. Interestingly the word in the spot that you would expect to be labeled Africa, has the same number of letters.
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However, the space you would expect to say Europa has one too many letters...unless that weird symbol with an extra long tail isn't actually a letter.
The only thing is, if that assumption is made then the matching letters between the words don't match, but if it's some kind of marching cipher that we might not expect them to. Though it's hard to imagine such a cipher being used on a text that has words so haphazardly strewn about, unless there's some kind of marking added to tell you where to start...like an extra letter that's not a letter marking giving you a clue.
Of course there's nothing definitive but just some thoughts I had while flipping through the pages and thought "hold up I've seen that before", which happens to me a lot while browsing the document but when I start trying to match the letters to the expected words it all seems to fall apart. There's a lot of classical medieval occult imagery throughout that anyone who's studied the grimoires will immediately recognize, but it never seems to match up with any established lineage even if you go in odd directions like the Arabic Picatrix.
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However, the space you would expect to say Europa has one too many letters...unless that weird symbol with an extra long tail isn't actually a letter.
The only thing is, if that assumption is made then the matching letters between the words don't match, but if it's some kind of marching cipher that we might not expect them to. Though it's hard to imagine such a cipher being used on a text that has words so haphazardly strewn about, unless there's some kind of marking added to tell you where to start...like an extra letter that's not a letter marking giving you a clue.
Of course there's nothing definitive but just some thoughts I had while flipping through the pages and thought "hold up I've seen that before", which happens to me a lot while browsing the document but when I start trying to match the letters to the expected words it all seems to fall apart. There's a lot of classical medieval occult imagery throughout that anyone who's studied the grimoires will immediately recognize, but it never seems to match up with any established lineage even if you go in odd directions like the Arabic Picatrix.