The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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Thank you Stolfi, it is very intriguing. I tried to map some other words in the rooster. More specifically the word for 鸡, 下 and 子 which each appear at least 2 times in the Chinese. I could not easily map them, however something strange happened in the process, when I was ready to give up it seemed as if a potential match appeared then I would dig further and notice no it does not really match then think again to stop looking and suddenly notice a new detail that would get me hooked, it happened several times until I really had to go. It’s a bit as if the text has some kind of resistance and elasticity at the same time ! Is that some mysterious power of the VMS? ?

Are you able to find potential candidates for these characters? It is intriguing, really, but I guess I would need to spend more time. Especially the versions of shennong bencao jing are multiple, so the possibilities are also quite numerous on that front as well, we are not talking about a canonical text. For now I have to remain agnostic. I did not have time to study other parts like the bee larva yet.

It would be helpful for me to have the rooster in EVA pronunciation (latin characters) to better visualize and avoid the trap of the Voynich script misreading.

Thanks again Stolfi and looking forward to spend some more time on this.

Jonas

I'm making no judgement on this theory generally, but it is certainly a truth of VMS that it has a curious mirror property, albeit a distorted one. This is why it can be Chinese to one person, Turkish to another, Latin, Greek Hebrew, Catalan, Slavic. Everyone seems to find their evidence for a match, and yet none of them quite matches perfectly.  This makes it very curious indeed...