07-09-2026, 07:55 AM
I ’ve been thinking about it, so here goes: Crazy idea:
Maybe the VMS isn’t a special, encrypted work at all, but rather a cipher experiment. Someone developed a cipher—perhaps in collaboration with others—and they tested it on the book by encrypting another book or sections of it, to see what worked and what didn’t.
Perhaps this also explains the “qokedy” repetitions (among other things)—they were trying to see how far they could take it.
In that case, the various differences across the sections would be, in part, tests to see what works better and, in part, actual further development.
That would explain why the vellum is of such poor quality—they were simply scraps. The plants are probably just figments of the imagination, too, because the point wasn’t to draw real plants; the fact that the nymphs ended up naked was perhaps just a bit of fun on the part of the people working on the cipher. And the other drawings may have been nothing more than tests as well. Referencing astronomy with the cipher, plants, etc...
I know this isn’t proven by anything, so it’s just another crazy theory
, but it could explain the differences between the individual sections. I still feel that the Stars section is the “most advanced,” but maybe that’s just my imagination.
Maybe the VMS isn’t a special, encrypted work at all, but rather a cipher experiment. Someone developed a cipher—perhaps in collaboration with others—and they tested it on the book by encrypting another book or sections of it, to see what worked and what didn’t.
Perhaps this also explains the “qokedy” repetitions (among other things)—they were trying to see how far they could take it.
In that case, the various differences across the sections would be, in part, tests to see what works better and, in part, actual further development.
That would explain why the vellum is of such poor quality—they were simply scraps. The plants are probably just figments of the imagination, too, because the point wasn’t to draw real plants; the fact that the nymphs ended up naked was perhaps just a bit of fun on the part of the people working on the cipher. And the other drawings may have been nothing more than tests as well. Referencing astronomy with the cipher, plants, etc...
I know this isn’t proven by anything, so it’s just another crazy theory
, but it could explain the differences between the individual sections. I still feel that the Stars section is the “most advanced,” but maybe that’s just my imagination.