[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

[Radim Dobeš]

One day this entire thread will become a case study in pareidolia and confirmation bias...

Indeed, all the attempts at deciphering the text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the last 100 years are a big case of meta-pareidolia: people "seeing" meaningful words in a bunch of mostly random letters, which were written by a guy a few centuries ago who "saw" Latin or German words on a smattering of random smudges that were once Voynichese glyphs.

All the best, --stolfi

I was reading a discussion about this text and caught sight of words like "goat" and "milk." From the perspective of that thread, however, this would be highly significant. Given that I also present methods from grimoires and magical scrolls here—for instance, in *The Key of Solomon* (*Clavicula Salomonis*), goatskin is explicitly mentioned for specific rituals—it makes sense. Milk could also have had multiple meanings, ranging from a bleaching agent to a ritual ingredient. To me, it looks like instructions for preparing or purifying (including magically) the parchment.