26-01-2019, 09:48 AM
I'm every time more convinced that all the attempts of deciphering the Voynich have failed for trying to alphabetize the glyphs. Doing a transcription of them is to apply a scientific method that is not correct for a cultural product of its time. That is for me an huge prejudice. We have to think in the Zodiac Man. This well known image linked the stars with the human body without words. It was a non-verbal language. Learned people understand what it meant.
The Voynich, first of all, is a philosophical problem. First, we have to understand the mentality of learned people from XV century. They didn't need words, only a way of linking the macrocosmos with the microcosmos, the stars with the herbs, and this way is a string of symbols. There is something magic in it, but this magical thinking is part of their mentality.
Sorry if I'm stubborn in this idea, but is a fundamental idea: No letters, no words, no sounds. The Voynich is a mute, silent script. Only for the eyes.
The Voynich, first of all, is a philosophical problem. First, we have to understand the mentality of learned people from XV century. They didn't need words, only a way of linking the macrocosmos with the microcosmos, the stars with the herbs, and this way is a string of symbols. There is something magic in it, but this magical thinking is part of their mentality.
Sorry if I'm stubborn in this idea, but is a fundamental idea: No letters, no words, no sounds. The Voynich is a mute, silent script. Only for the eyes.