26-02-2026, 03:07 AM
(26-02-2026, 02:45 AM)TheEnglishKiwi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
If this page is describing three stages of a soul, we would expect the structural grammar to reflect a state change.
- Hypothesis A: Does the word for soul act as a base root, perhaps something like edy or chedy, that gets modified by prefixes to represent the three different stages? For example, is stage one chedy, stage two shedy, and stage three oteedy?
- Hypothesis B: Or is the word for soul a static, repeating block, and the surrounding structural formulas act as the verbs changing its state?
I think the Voynich Manuscript is talking about ensoulment in the tradition of Aristotle (successive souls: vegetative, animal, and finally rational). This is just a guess but I think the word for the soul itself would be the same and it would be like:
- the soul in the vegetative state or vegetative soul
- the soul in the animal state or animal soul
- the soul in the final rational state or rational soul
I would not expect them to have individual words for each of the stages so I think the answer would be Hypothesis B.