26-09-2026, 07:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-09-2026, 07:39 PM by JustAnotherTheory.)
I agree with @You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that it could represent the cycle of life. The only issue, is, almost none of the manuscripts, to our best knowledge, from 1410-1430 (more or less the carbon dating of the parchment), even remotely resemble the illustrations in the VMS. We have some ideas, like some exceedingly rare italian engineering manuscripts, and some ridiculously unknown herbals, as well as obscure copies of nature manuscripts, but none of these seem to be much more than a hint to the origin of 0.1% of the illustrations.
Not to mention the writing, which if it is a cipher, we are in trouble, because it seems to be unbreakable. The earliest "serious" attempt at cryptography came about 40 years after the carbon dating of the parchment, and it might well be the way the VMS text was encoded, except nobody found any meaningful way of confirming this.
Not you, not me, not professional cryptographers.
So yeah, if it was a "cycle of life", then the person/people responsible for this were either geniuses beyond our understanding, or there is a gap in history that we have all missed, or this is the work of (1 to 5) madman/madmen, or... there is some foul play involved.
There is an abundance of theories in all four aforementioned cases. Welcome to the study of the VMS
Not to mention the writing, which if it is a cipher, we are in trouble, because it seems to be unbreakable. The earliest "serious" attempt at cryptography came about 40 years after the carbon dating of the parchment, and it might well be the way the VMS text was encoded, except nobody found any meaningful way of confirming this.
Not you, not me, not professional cryptographers.
So yeah, if it was a "cycle of life", then the person/people responsible for this were either geniuses beyond our understanding, or there is a gap in history that we have all missed, or this is the work of (1 to 5) madman/madmen, or... there is some foul play involved.
There is an abundance of theories in all four aforementioned cases. Welcome to the study of the VMS