RE: [Just for fun] State of the Voynich 2016
R. Sale > 02-01-2017, 09:38 PM
I don't have actual, hard and confirmed answers to your questions. While I certainly agree with the majority, in most cases, that such is a reasonable evaluation of what the VMs presents to the the viewer's perception, I cannot fully accept, with an absolute certainty, that this level of perceived reality is genuine. VMs investigation is sometimes compared to the parable of the blind men and the elephant, but that requires that each one interacts with a different part of the elephant.
Each VMs investigator has access to the same informational input. The researcher's task is to make a sensible interpretation of the information presented by the VMs. And the record of that research shows that the task of interpretation has been and remains problematic. The VM s is like an egg with an extra thick shell. And the attempts to crack the shell have so far all failed. Hanging a new calendar on the wall is not going to change that.
From the outside, the purpose of an eggshell is to protect and defend against entry. The appearance of the VMs is like a facade, a false front, intended to deflect and prevent the discovery of its contents by those for whom it was not intended. That is the purpose of hidden communication. That is the reason for disguised illustrations. A facade is not created to exist on its own. It is constructed to hide the intended purpose. The intended reality is hidden behind the facade.
Much of current discussion is involved with comparative investigations of the apparent nature of the facade, and does not provide a way of penetrating the facade to find the reality behind it. Purpose is found in intentional construction. Intentional construction is demonstrated by objective, positional confirmations and verified by historical grounding, a recognizable correspondence with fact and tradition. Further progress will depend on such recognition.