Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

I'm creating this thread for the discussion of the theory you present on your website, 

I have added the following lines to my website:

"The alligator gar is not the only New World animal to wear protective armor. On folio 80v, we find another one:



It's an armadillo. According to Wikipedia, when threatened by a predator, armadillos would run into a thorny patch (are those protrusions underneath supposed to be thorns?) using its armor for protection, which could explain why its head is tucked safely down and under (mouth to the left, ears to the right) as it runs into the thorny patch.

Compare the Voynich drawing with this public domain depiction of an armadillo:



It might be a different species of armadillo (there were quite a few species including some without bands) but it is close enough to leave little doubt that this is the same animal.

The armadillo lived in South and Central America, and in North America from Texas to Florida. In other words, it lived in or near the swamps and joins the alligators, the spotted jaguar, the alligator gar, and the water lily as pointing to the green-water swamps on the north side of the Gulf of Mexico."

VMS links to the New World have found strong support from academics who fall into one of two categories:

1. Academics who claim, with very impressive evidence, that the VMS is a forgery made by Voynich in the early 20th century, and

2. Academics who claim that the VMS is genuine but that it was made in the 16th century rather than in the 15th century as widely believed.

Since the contemporary technique of dating via radio-carbon could hardly be predicted, there would have been no motive to search for blank parchment hundreds of years old (as if it could be found!). Perhaps only inadvertently, both types of academics insinuate or imply that scientists from the U. of Arizona are guilty of fraud or grave error.

It seems that those guys, just like you guys, have been influenced by the global media into believing that nothing ever happened in world history except what has been recorded in official sources. From what I have been reading, this influencing was initiated back in the 1960s to stifle public inquiries into the assassination of JFK and it has been continuing with rigor ever since.

Consequently, since it has never been recorded that Europeans visited the tropical areas of the Americas during pre-Columbian times, the academics are forced into preposterous conclusions while you guys scramble to find an armored animal in Africa or Asia.