14-07-2022, 12:54 PM
I agree that script, bathing nymphs and maps are probably the weirdest parts. But while the VM displays an almost fractal weirdness on every level, I think it is less alien than it was imagined some years ago.
We have good evidence now that the VM is clearly rooted within 15th century middle Europe in both script and imagery, most likely in the alpine region between Switzerland, South Germany, Northern Italy, Slovenia and Bohemia. It's most likely neither made by aliens nor in the New World. At least some images like Gemini are undoubtedly homologues to Diebolt Lauber's workshop that share a common ancestry.
And most glyphs are also not so unfamiliar from 15th century manuscripts either. It's the combination that's unique but if we consider the VM to be the personal work of a sole individual not intended for a broader audience, it does seem plausible to me, no matter what personal meaning it had for the author or what the actual plaintext (if any) is. It may very well be that it is impossible to read the text without a priori knowledge of the content which would not be a problem for the author and an explanation for our inability to decipher it. It also explains the poor artstyle if the author simply wasn't good at drawing because that wasn't his profession. I think the average person looking at the VM for the first time could also live with such hypothesis. Weird people do weird things.
What I cannot wrap my head around is the alternative option that the VM is the collaborative work of a community of encipherers, scribes, illustrators, painters and indeed intended to be understood and meaningful to a broader audience. Then things get really weird.
Every conspiracy theory dies with an increasing number of people involved and this would require some secret society that left no traces. Not impossible but it leaves many many questions I see no answers for.
But my personal opinion is irrelevant, only factual evidence counts.
Oh yeah, and then there's the epitome of weirdness, that single 19th century VM herbal page that's a very unfaithful copy (if any?) of the original. What's up with that? I find its existence almost weirder than the original.
We have good evidence now that the VM is clearly rooted within 15th century middle Europe in both script and imagery, most likely in the alpine region between Switzerland, South Germany, Northern Italy, Slovenia and Bohemia. It's most likely neither made by aliens nor in the New World. At least some images like Gemini are undoubtedly homologues to Diebolt Lauber's workshop that share a common ancestry.
And most glyphs are also not so unfamiliar from 15th century manuscripts either. It's the combination that's unique but if we consider the VM to be the personal work of a sole individual not intended for a broader audience, it does seem plausible to me, no matter what personal meaning it had for the author or what the actual plaintext (if any) is. It may very well be that it is impossible to read the text without a priori knowledge of the content which would not be a problem for the author and an explanation for our inability to decipher it. It also explains the poor artstyle if the author simply wasn't good at drawing because that wasn't his profession. I think the average person looking at the VM for the first time could also live with such hypothesis. Weird people do weird things.
What I cannot wrap my head around is the alternative option that the VM is the collaborative work of a community of encipherers, scribes, illustrators, painters and indeed intended to be understood and meaningful to a broader audience. Then things get really weird.
Every conspiracy theory dies with an increasing number of people involved and this would require some secret society that left no traces. Not impossible but it leaves many many questions I see no answers for.
But my personal opinion is irrelevant, only factual evidence counts.
Oh yeah, and then there's the epitome of weirdness, that single 19th century VM herbal page that's a very unfaithful copy (if any?) of the original. What's up with that? I find its existence almost weirder than the original.