27-01-2026, 04:19 PM
And going back to the lack of cribs I can see some other possibilities:
1) The images are red herring. They mislead you. The actual text tells adventures of Robin Hood or speaks about hunting badgers
It would explain why we don't have candidates for plant names or Zodiac signs. But there are another problems - if the text was meaningful and coded in a simple way then we would have another cribs. And William Friedman would crack it whatever it speaks about.
And let's be honest - Voynich Manuscript is weird but it would be even more weird.
Notice that there should be cribs even if the text is in some exotic language or even in a constructed language.
2) The author consciously made an enormous (and apparently successful) labour of avoiding the cribs.
Very anachronistic, paranoid and weird again.
3) The text is gibberish
Well... Gibberish manuscript is still very weird but for me it is less weird than other options. I will try to develop these ideas in the future.
1) The images are red herring. They mislead you. The actual text tells adventures of Robin Hood or speaks about hunting badgers
It would explain why we don't have candidates for plant names or Zodiac signs. But there are another problems - if the text was meaningful and coded in a simple way then we would have another cribs. And William Friedman would crack it whatever it speaks about.
And let's be honest - Voynich Manuscript is weird but it would be even more weird.
Notice that there should be cribs even if the text is in some exotic language or even in a constructed language.
2) The author consciously made an enormous (and apparently successful) labour of avoiding the cribs.
Very anachronistic, paranoid and weird again.
3) The text is gibberish
Well...
Gibberish manuscript is still very weird but for me it is less weird than other options. I will try to develop these ideas in the future.
