17-12-2025, 10:34 AM
I was reading Athanasius Kircher's Wikipedia page and this sentence reminded me of this thread
"In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses, and that hieroglyphs were occult symbols which "cannot be translated by words, but expressed only by marks, characters and figures."
Kircher was supposedly one of the first people we know of who attempted to decode the Voynich Manuscript. Perhaps he had similar ideas for deciphering the Voynich? Just speculation. But perhaps this idea is quite a bit older than this thread.
"In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses, and that hieroglyphs were occult symbols which "cannot be translated by words, but expressed only by marks, characters and figures."
Kircher was supposedly one of the first people we know of who attempted to decode the Voynich Manuscript. Perhaps he had similar ideas for deciphering the Voynich? Just speculation. But perhaps this idea is quite a bit older than this thread.