(01-11-2025, 08:06 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'll try again.
You gave translation for 1v:
Quote:Water moves with the force of life and purifies whatever it touches.
Its current teaches the soul measure and repose.
Fire accompanies it and tempers it; its warmth sustains virtue without destroying it.
From their union the living herb is born:
its roots drink the earth’s moisture,
its leaves preserve the sun’s clarity,
and the spirit of both circulates in its sap.
The air gathers its fragrance and carries its power throughout the world.
Thus water learns firmness from fire,
and fire learns gentleness from water.
When the soul beholds this concord, it remembers its origin:
it understands that the order of the elements
is also the order of thought.
And whoever knows that balance, is healed.
Tell us just which line in the original text contains the sentence:
Thus water learns firmness from fire,
and fire learns gentleness from water.
I suppose there should be some pattern like:
A B C D E
E B F D A
where A is "water" B is "learns", E is "fire" and so on.
If you try to translate the Voynich Manuscript directly, it won’t make much sense —
because it was written in a language and a format specifically designed to keep knowledge under control and away from uninitiated eyes.
You had to be initiated to understand it.
Even people from that same time period couldn’t read the book, because most technical manuscripts were written in such a way as to prevent knowledge from spreading outside their professional or philosophical circles.
I truly believe that’s probably one of the main reasons nobody has ever been able to translate it before.
Translation is already difficult — but translating into an unknown, forgotten language that operates under a completely different logic from our modern ones is something far more complex.
What I did was to solve that first riddle:
to identify what was the original language and system of thought used by the people who wrote this masterpiece.
there more books under the same system...
i am looking for someone related to editorials, agencies or academic that want to participate on the project.