The Voynich Ninja

A thought experiment: What if the Voynich Manuscript were something like Tolkiens Works, but without any surviving context?

Imagine discovering a book written entirely in an invented language, accompanied by illustrations of unfamiliar but similar plants, rituals and cosmological systems. With no translations, explanations or other writings to provide context. Like the silmarillion written in one of tolkiens invented languages and artwork for said book found houndreds of years from now. 
Would we necessarily recognise it as a fictional world or would we assume it was an encoded account of our own world/hostory? 

Could the Voynich Manuscript be a constructed symbolic or fictional knowledge system blending real medieval knowledge with imagined elements?

I’m curious wether this possibility has been seriously explored in Voynich research ?

(11-10-2026, 12:09 AM)Soph007 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could the Voynich Manuscript be a constructed symbolic or fictional knowledge system blending real medieval knowledge with imagined elements?

As far as I know, this kind of fantasy is an anachronism for the Middle Ages.

Voynich also doesn’t look like a work of fiction, judging by the illustrations. It resembles an encyclopedia. If this is a work of fiction, then they hired a very poor illustrator. Or, alternatively, most of the book consists of a description of a fictional world, and all the plot lines are crammed into the end.

So, such a theory is very unlikely...

BUT! VMS may be a magical book or part of some magical practice. This could explain its unconventional nature, its scarcity, and also why it is written in an incomprehensible language with incomprehensible illustrations. This is similar to the glossolalia theory, but the most suitable theory is Book of Soyga, specifically the tables at the end. They were created thanks to a special algorithm, but their purpose is unknown. The VMS text also seems to have been created thanks to some kind of algorithm (the same self-citation).