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RE: Voynich is encrypted ENOCH - Radim Dobeš - 25-05-2026
(23-05-2026, 06:58 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(23-05-2026, 12:41 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.and further the trace leading to Athanasius Kircher.(22-05-2026, 10:05 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further found pictorial correspondences between the VM and Ethiopian liturgical art.
I must admit that the resemblances are as good as any that we have seen so far.
I am tickled by the idea that the VMS artist may have mis-interpreted halos as wide-brimmed hats (like he apparently mis-interpreted a rosary as a chain of big balls, and a urine sample flask as a perfume or elixir bottle).
Quote:Supports the Ethiopian trace in the VM
It is possible, of course, that the Scribe who drew the VMS pictures was drawing "inspiration" from an Ethiopian book, among all the other books that we have identified as highly probable sources of "inspiration".
But another possibility is that both the VMS artist and that Ethiopian artist drew inspiration from the same source book, possibly through multiple copying steps.
Can we find other books, preferably European, with that same sort of imagery: ladies in tubs up to the waist, with decoration on the tubs that resembles columns and arches?
Quote:connection with the Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch was only one of the books in the Ethiopian Bible (and it was pre-Christanity, so it did not mention Mary and Jesus, saints, bishops, etc.)
Kircher lived ~200 years after the VMS was (probably) written.
Quote:The correspondences are in the Astronomical part of the VM, which presents the Astronomical part of the Book of Enoch. (30 days a month)
Can you elaborate this part? I skimmed through that book some 25 years ago, and remember only that the astronomy part was quite childish. What was that calendar with 30-day months?
All the best, --stolfi
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Yes, I will prepare an explanation for the Enoch calendar. In my opinion, the artist VM did not misinterpret the images. They are deliberately distorted and edited so that only those who knew where they came from would recognize them. The holy figures that are not in Enoch only help to express phrases from the book of Enoch. For example, regarding sinfulness, faith, ascension, rebirth, etc.
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The Enoch calendar is an ancient, divinely revealed solar calendar detailed in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees.
Designed to be a perfect, unchanging cosmic system, it stands out with a mathematically rigid 364-day year meant to remain perfectly in sync with the seasons.
Core Characteristics:364-Day Fixed Solar Year: It consists of exactly 364 days, which is divisible by \(7\).
This means the year has exactly \(52\) weeks, and every date consistently falls on the exact same day of the week, every single year.
Four Identical Quarters: The year is divided into four seasons of exactly 91 days (or 13 weeks) each.
Predictable Month Lengths: Each quarter has three months.
They follow a strict, repeating 30-30-(30+1) day pattern each quarter
Month 1: 30 days
Month 2: 30 days
Month 3: (30+1) days (This includes the intercalary day)
This totals 12 months, and exactly 360 regular days.
Four Intercalary Days: The remaining 4 days required to hit the 364 total are added at the very end of every quarter (after the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th months).
These days mark the equinoxes and solstices, and are usually considered extramensual (free-floating days outside of the regular month count).
Independent of the Moon: Unlike the traditional Hebrew calendar, which is lunisolar, the Enoch calendar is entirely based on the sun and stars.
It does not rely on visual sightings of the moon to mark festivals.
Religious Significance: In ancient sectarian texts (like those found in the Qumran community), the calendar ensured that holy days (such as Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles) always fell on fixed days of the week, specifically designed to uphold Sabbath covenants.
RE: Voynich is encrypted ENOCH - Radim Dobeš - 25-05-2026
The Ethiopian calendar (or Ge'ez calendar) is a unique solar timekeeping system that serves as the official civil calendar of Ethiopia.
It is closely related to the ancient Coptic and Egyptian calendars.
Core Characteristics:7 to 8 Year Gap: The calendar is roughly 7 to 8 years behind the standard Western Gregorian calendar.
This gap exists because the Ethiopian Orthodox Church calculates the Annunciation (the birth year of Jesus Christ) differently than the Roman Catholic Church did.
13 Months: It consists of 13 months in total.
Uniform Month Lengths: The first 12 months have exactly 30 days each.
The 13th Month (Pagumē): The final month, called Pagumē, functions as an intercalary month to wrap up the solar cycle.
It lasts for 5 days in a common year and 6 days during a leap year.September New Year:
The Ethiopian New Year, called Enkutatash, falls on September 11 of the Gregorian calendar (or September 12 in the year before a Gregorian leap year), marking the end of the local rainy season.
The connection between the Ethiopian calendar and the Enoch calendar is deep and historically unique.
It is rooted in both mathematical structure and religious history.
The main historical bridge between them is that Ethiopia is the only nation in the world that preserved the Book of Enoch as part of its official biblical canon.
RE: Voynich is encrypted ENOCH - Jorge_Stolfi - 26-05-2026
(25-05-2026, 06:32 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Enoch calendar is an ancient, divinely revealed solar calendar detailed in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. [...] Core Characteristics:364-Day Fixed Solar Year: It consists of exactly 364 days, which is divisible by 7. This means the year has exactly 52 weeks, and every date consistently falls on the exact same day of the week, every single year. [...] each quarter Month 1: 30 days; Month 2: 30 days; Month 3: 30+1 days (This includes the intercalary day) [...]
That is close to what we see in the VMS Zodiac -- but not quite.
One may argue whether the Pisces page has 29, 30, or 31 "things" (depending on whether one counts nymphs, labels, or stars, respectively). But all the other surviving diagrams have 30 "things" (or 15, in each half of Aries and Taurus).
So, in the VMS calendar, either the intercalary days are all clustered in the missing pages, or the "things" are not days but 1/360 of the whole yearly cycle -- like 1 Babylonian degree of arc on the Ecliptic, or ~365.25/360 = ~1.0146 days = ~24 hours and 20 minutes.
All the best, --stolfi
RE: Voynich is encrypted ENOCH - Jorge_Stolfi - 26-05-2026
(25-05-2026, 06:53 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.13 Months: It consists of 13 months in total. Uniform Month Lengths: The first 12 months have exactly 30 days each. The 13th Month (Pagumē): The final month, called Pagumē, functions as an intercalary month to wrap up the solar cycle.
This could be compatible with the VMS Zodiac pages, if the Pagumē falls in the missing pages (Capricorn and Aquarius).
However this is different from what you described in the previous post as the Enochian calendar, where the intercalary days are spread over the year, at the end of each quarter.
Quote:The Ethiopian New Year, called Enkutatash, falls on September 11 of the Gregorian calendar (or September 12 in the year before a Gregorian leap year), marking the end of the local rainy season.
That is still OK, because we don't know how the VMS Author determined the month names in the diagrams, so
Quote:Ethiopia is the only nation in the world that preserved the Book of Enoch as part of its official biblical canon.
More precisely, the Ethiopian Christian Church was the only Abrahamic religion that did so. Is it the official religion of the state?
All the best, --stolfi
PS. By the way, the diagram at lower right has an 11-pointed star, instead of a 13-pointed one with one smaller point.