19-09-2023, 09:45 AM
Much of the Voynich enigma is an epistemological problem, that is, what approach to knowledge is appropriate, how to see it as an enlightened person of the same era would see it.
For example, pretending that script is a complex encrypted language is completely anachronistic; It's like pretending that when the telephone was invented in the 19th century, mobile phones were also invented. The same reasoning applies when trying to find an oriental, minority or exotic language for a product of the 15th century with marked Western European characteristics.
In the iconographic interpretation the errors are patent. There are many solutions that see in Quire 13 something biological related to women. One of the most recurrent medieval motifs is ignored. At that time allegory and personification were frequently used. In Voynich we clearly see this metaphorical resource when we see the sun and the moon with human faces. Why would the female figures that we see in the zodiac and in Quire 13 be anything other than a personification of the stars?
At a time when we see realistically drawn herbaria, why is it so difficult to identify plants at Voynich? Could it be that the author had no interest in drawing real herbs, but rather in transmitting another type of message?
For all these reasons and others, as important as studying Voynich is knowing how to study it.
For example, pretending that script is a complex encrypted language is completely anachronistic; It's like pretending that when the telephone was invented in the 19th century, mobile phones were also invented. The same reasoning applies when trying to find an oriental, minority or exotic language for a product of the 15th century with marked Western European characteristics.
In the iconographic interpretation the errors are patent. There are many solutions that see in Quire 13 something biological related to women. One of the most recurrent medieval motifs is ignored. At that time allegory and personification were frequently used. In Voynich we clearly see this metaphorical resource when we see the sun and the moon with human faces. Why would the female figures that we see in the zodiac and in Quire 13 be anything other than a personification of the stars?
At a time when we see realistically drawn herbaria, why is it so difficult to identify plants at Voynich? Could it be that the author had no interest in drawing real herbs, but rather in transmitting another type of message?
For all these reasons and others, as important as studying Voynich is knowing how to study it.