Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, you missed my point...

Many of my ideas are also met with doubt and antagonism, as are those of many others (get used to it), but that has nothing to do with what I posted...


When you talk about OTHER PEOPLE'S work, please do not generalize.

Researchers in the Voynich community have a great diversity of opinions. If you are refuting someone's idea that it was created in northern Italy, for example, you must say WHO you are talking about rather than generalizing, as you have been doing, because we do NOT all hold the same opinions. There have been at least a dozen different places suggested as possible origins for the VMS (and that's not counting the ones that haven't been written up yet), northern Italy is only one suggestion out of many.

I started clicking on a list of VMS websites a few days ago and quickly found one of the theories you are talking about. It was a website apparently created by a lady from India (keep in mind that I have a faulty memory these days) who claimed to have solved the origins of the VMS. She said it was written in India because she found one of the VMS plants in her backyard. As proof, she provided, side by side, the VMS drawing and a photo of her backyard plant. Indeed, the leaves did look similar, perhaps not so much the flower.

What about the other plants, the castle, the Western astrology, the nude white women, and the green swamp water? A good theory has to take into account everything that is depicted in the VMS, not just a few of the things.

Unless you can find evidence that was impossible for medieval ships to cross the Atlantic, you cannot claim that the sunflower, the swamp lily, a few dozen additional plants, and the green water were all the product of someone's imagination in the Old World. It would be a miracle if the human imagination produced even a single accurate result let alone a multiplicity of them.

So far, I have encountered nothing that would be inconsistent with the VMS having been authored by Cathars in the New World during the 13th century. The big mystery is how and when did their deerskin book get back to the Old World and where in the Old World was it copied on to cow parchment around the year 1420. Was the encryption applied by the Cathars or at the time of copying? The Inquisition was still active in 1420, so the copying was most likely done inside a Jewish community in Catalonia, Provence, Morocco, Egypt, or the Holy Land.