08-01-2025, 04:36 PM
The imagery of a camp, or field is useful to remind me that we avoid communication in a manner similar to the parlor game of " telephone", things get lost in communication. Thankfully, the primary document is available for all.. It is clear that unless someone has success with translating one of the zodiac symbols or a constellation into an understandable tongue, the VM Rosetta stone remains elusive. The late Steven Bax was on to something, but it has not matured into anything so far.
This brings me, late to the party, to discern the scribes motive as filtered by modern sensibility.If the VM was intended as a secretive reference book for the discovery and use of herbs, it seems wrong that so much is written about and around occult flora in advance of finding any. If they were once extant, now extinct, that is quite a few too many, I think.
The encoded script, then could be about the promise of the benefit of the herb, once found. Yet, there is no space given over for editing the original script. I am thinking ruled lines or bracketed space for additional factual information .Would marginalia be sufficient? Since the plants can't be found, the margin notes can't be written as a test. As written, the text of the VM appears to be the final word on each illustrated image. Not convincing to me. Neither do I embrace the notion that the plant anatomy like the text was deliberately obfuscated. The decjpherment key would constitute an other entire volume. Why do it?
If the VM was sold as a reference book, it is worthless without a key. If it was a faked construction, using a minimalist alphabet of 8 consonant characters and slapdash artistry, it could be written and sold as a curiosity. As much as it pains me to say it, the VM and the Oak Island treasure are more similar than not. Each has tantalized and consumed people just as the biblical Eve hungered for knowledge. Can you blame her or us? Its human.
The fun is in the quest. That is the secret of the VM, Is submit.
This brings me, late to the party, to discern the scribes motive as filtered by modern sensibility.If the VM was intended as a secretive reference book for the discovery and use of herbs, it seems wrong that so much is written about and around occult flora in advance of finding any. If they were once extant, now extinct, that is quite a few too many, I think.
The encoded script, then could be about the promise of the benefit of the herb, once found. Yet, there is no space given over for editing the original script. I am thinking ruled lines or bracketed space for additional factual information .Would marginalia be sufficient? Since the plants can't be found, the margin notes can't be written as a test. As written, the text of the VM appears to be the final word on each illustrated image. Not convincing to me. Neither do I embrace the notion that the plant anatomy like the text was deliberately obfuscated. The decjpherment key would constitute an other entire volume. Why do it?
If the VM was sold as a reference book, it is worthless without a key. If it was a faked construction, using a minimalist alphabet of 8 consonant characters and slapdash artistry, it could be written and sold as a curiosity. As much as it pains me to say it, the VM and the Oak Island treasure are more similar than not. Each has tantalized and consumed people just as the biblical Eve hungered for knowledge. Can you blame her or us? Its human.
The fun is in the quest. That is the secret of the VM, Is submit.