Decoding the Voynich Symbols

[zachary.kaelan]

From my recollection it is not uncommon for people to imply that behaviour relating to the Voynich manuscript is unusual whereas it seems to me to be part of a general phenomenon.

It's a combination of it being long, of unknown origin, and filled with ambiguity, with no actual evidence as to what the text or drawings could mean, if anything. The drawings could be meaningless, with no relation to the text, for all we know. The unknown origin part fuels a wide range of wild theories all on its own. The Zodiac ciphers and Egyptian hieroglyphs at least had confirmed origins, nobody is claiming that the news faked the Zodiac ciphers as a hoax for publicity. Being long and ambiguous makes it easy to find a slice of text that fits any hypothesis, with the right amount of ingenuity and lateral thinking.