27-01-2026, 11:52 AM
The Voynich Manuscript was conceived as a book to be seen, not to be read. And I am absolutely certain that not only its authors, but any educated person in Europe at that time would have perfectly understood what the book meant. Just like us, those educated people wouldn't know what the script means, but that wouldn't be a problem in understanding the underlying idea.
The central idea of the entire book is the power of the stars, astrology, a common practice at the time. It makes absolutely no difference whether the herbs we see are real or imagined. The stars have power over them, to create them or to bestow upon them their virtues.
Assuming this, which is most likely given the imagery in the codex, the script cannot be a language because its purpose is not to describe anything—neither the herbs nor the cosmological diagrams nor anything else. The script's purpose is simply to show. What the authors see as they are writing is the sun and the moon moving among the fixed stars. They see icons, icons they have created to accompany the central idea.
The central idea of the entire book is the power of the stars, astrology, a common practice at the time. It makes absolutely no difference whether the herbs we see are real or imagined. The stars have power over them, to create them or to bestow upon them their virtues.
Assuming this, which is most likely given the imagery in the codex, the script cannot be a language because its purpose is not to describe anything—neither the herbs nor the cosmological diagrams nor anything else. The script's purpose is simply to show. What the authors see as they are writing is the sun and the moon moving among the fixed stars. They see icons, icons they have created to accompany the central idea.