[Movie] New video about the Swallowtail Merlons map

[Rafal]

I just noticed this video has a harder time attracting an audience than my previous ones.

Let me share some thoughts.

"Is Voynich fake" seems to be a big, important question to most people even slightly interested in it.
"Swallowtail merlons" on the other hand may at first seem to be some tiny, unimportant detail.

I'll tell you something about myself. When about 3-4 years ago I got interested in Voynich Manuscript I really couldn't understand why everyone is so "obsessed" with those merlons. I have seen a lot of talk about them here and at Nick's Pelling site and couldn't really get it.

My impression was that people should really work harder on the text to break it. All these merlons, zodial signs, Italian masters, Quattrocento and so on is beating around the bush. It's easier so people go for it instead of dealing with the hard cryptology.

Now I am much more humble Voynich Manuscript is just very hard to decrypt so any attack from any angle on it may turn out valuable.

And one more thought. A modern man has seen a lot of castles in his life. These would be castles from all around the world and these would be fantasy castles from Disney movies. And these would be his local castles which were rebuilt many times and are a mix of architectural styles, often foreign ones to his count  ry. So if a modern man would have to draw a castle, it would probably didn't tell much about him. He could be from Spain, Germany, Norway or United States and you would be unable to tell it from his style.

In the past it was different. There wasn't any global culture so if someone was drawing these Ghibelin merlons then he had to be somehow linked to Italy. Maybe the video should stress it more because it's not that obvious.

But it was a great video by the way. I really appreciate amount of work put into it.