28-08-2026, 10:25 PM
I can say a few words about the fact that Voynichese is a "magical" language.
I found this statement very interesting, as no one had ever proposed it in this form before. The tables at the end of Book of Soyga are notable for the fact that the arrangement of the letters in them is not random, but is formed thanks to a special and rather complex algorithm by the standards of that time. This may seem unexpected for a simple magical book, but nevertheless, it is so. And we don’t know why they were needed.
Here, I immediately recalled Thorsten Timm’s theory about self‑citation. After all, no one has ruled out the possibility that this book (or rather, something from it could have been an almanac) might have been deliberately created to be meaningless.
That is, as in the case of Book of Soyga, the author could have come up with their own algorithm for creating text, tried it out many times, and written the book in that way. Why they did this is, again, unknown.
This resonates with the fact that some plants appear schematic and composite, and with the overall incomprehensibility of the illustrations.
Expanding on the idea of meaningless text, I think that in such a case, at the very least, the illustrations should be meaningful. I don’t know exactly how, but it could well be astrology with a touch of magic.
The beauty of this theory is that it doesn’t seem excessive or absurd, and it seems to fit well within the tradition of medieval magical books, such as the Book of Soyga.
But it’s still unclear what the point of an unreadable book is…
I found this statement very interesting, as no one had ever proposed it in this form before. The tables at the end of Book of Soyga are notable for the fact that the arrangement of the letters in them is not random, but is formed thanks to a special and rather complex algorithm by the standards of that time. This may seem unexpected for a simple magical book, but nevertheless, it is so. And we don’t know why they were needed.
Here, I immediately recalled Thorsten Timm’s theory about self‑citation. After all, no one has ruled out the possibility that this book (or rather, something from it could have been an almanac) might have been deliberately created to be meaningless.
That is, as in the case of Book of Soyga, the author could have come up with their own algorithm for creating text, tried it out many times, and written the book in that way. Why they did this is, again, unknown.
This resonates with the fact that some plants appear schematic and composite, and with the overall incomprehensibility of the illustrations.
Expanding on the idea of meaningless text, I think that in such a case, at the very least, the illustrations should be meaningful. I don’t know exactly how, but it could well be astrology with a touch of magic.
The beauty of this theory is that it doesn’t seem excessive or absurd, and it seems to fit well within the tradition of medieval magical books, such as the Book of Soyga.
But it’s still unclear what the point of an unreadable book is…