06-03-2026, 03:55 PM
I never said there was text in the Voynich manuscript. In fact, this thread is titled No text, but a visual code. For me, looking for a language in the script is just a prejudice. What I have said is that the message of the book is in the iconography and that the script is secondary.
I've always believed that we approach the Voynich Manuscript problem with a mindset—our own—that differs enormously from that of its creators. Among other things, I can't imagine the authors being concerned with statistics. They lived in a world where magic existed, something we've lost with the advancement of science.
If we include the two missing folios in Quire 20, it's clear there were 360 paragraphs, each accompanied by a star—the same star held by the female figures on the zodiacal pages. In other words, each degree of the sphere corresponds to one paragraph. For me, each of those paragraphs contains no text whatsoever, but rather different astronomical configurations.
I imagine each of the scribes who participated using a volvelle, playing at placing one symbol after another, following certain rules but occasionally breaking them. "Now I'll put the sun, then a star, now the moon in this position, then I'll move the sun, another star here behind the moon..." All by simply moving the movable hands of the volvelle, which gives the impression of Torsten's method of self-citation.
What I'm saying might sound childish, but I see it as a game played by people who believed in the power of the stars.
I've always believed that we approach the Voynich Manuscript problem with a mindset—our own—that differs enormously from that of its creators. Among other things, I can't imagine the authors being concerned with statistics. They lived in a world where magic existed, something we've lost with the advancement of science.
If we include the two missing folios in Quire 20, it's clear there were 360 paragraphs, each accompanied by a star—the same star held by the female figures on the zodiacal pages. In other words, each degree of the sphere corresponds to one paragraph. For me, each of those paragraphs contains no text whatsoever, but rather different astronomical configurations.
I imagine each of the scribes who participated using a volvelle, playing at placing one symbol after another, following certain rules but occasionally breaking them. "Now I'll put the sun, then a star, now the moon in this position, then I'll move the sun, another star here behind the moon..." All by simply moving the movable hands of the volvelle, which gives the impression of Torsten's method of self-citation.
What I'm saying might sound childish, but I see it as a game played by people who believed in the power of the stars.