Could it be that this represents a system for generating music?

[hbaraiki]

This plant has roots growing out of a human head. Doesn't this suggest that the plant itself is a manifestation of thoughts conceived within that head?

This highlights very well what I see as the main problem with your argument: it is an attempt to freely interpret images from a XV century manuscript without considering what these images would normally mean at the time. Faces/body parts/animals in roots were not rare and would be usually interpreted as cues about the name, shape or purpose of the plant. There are many threads about this on the forum, for example: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

This is an argument for why these types of threads are crucial to Voynich research, even if the “breakthrough solution” is overstated. In light of the “gibberish generator” metatheory, the Voynich seems to have become unsolvable in practice. And correct me if I’m wrong, but even if it were a cipher, it would likely be so complex and intricate that it would be extremely unlikely to be solved without a key. I’ve been wondering whether the missing pages might contain hints to the key, and whether anyone has speculated about that. In any case, this makes the Voynich, at least for me, a piece of art that stands to be interpreted. Perhaps by reading through these almost surrealist paintings we get a glimpse of the author’s unconscious, and perhaps of our own, which may or may not prove fruitful for deciphering or translating the book.

This also brings up the point of negative results. The literature has many “negative” attempts at decoding and translating the text, but few for the interpretive theories about the drawings. Maybe that’s the nature of the inquiry, but I also think negative results matter for scholarship as a whole (it reminds me of science journals’ reluctance to publish them). If someone went through these image-based interpretive paths to decipher the text and documented all the ways they could go wrong, they would at least help others avoid those pitfalls. That doesn’t mean this line of investigation is hopeless in principle, since nobody claims that of the deciphering efforts either. In this way, the thread can be a vehicle for convergent interpretations of the drawings, consistent with the historical context, in the hope of revealing a key to the text.