06-03-2025, 08:23 PM
(06-03-2025, 04:26 PM)Andreas Heller wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the other hand, if the author wanted to produce a meaningless text which looks like a meaningful text, why didn`t he use a typical amount of characters?
My hypothesis is that the manuscript was written to create a deception, to fabricate some bogus writing to make people believe that there was some distant land where they used a strange alphabet and where they knew the secrets of herbal medicine, astrology and witchcraft. Any claim that the secrets had been unlocked would have been of immense curiosity, and could have earned the writers a small fortune.
Any writing in the local language would have raised doubts that it was from somewhere distant.