Radim Dobeš > 14-07-2026, 10:56 AM
(14-07-2026, 10:33 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 07:25 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.They superficially resemble signs of the zodiac, but there is a significant difference between these symbols.
Actually neither resemble the traditional sign of Cancer -- the crab. One is two scorpions, the other two crayfish.
But both are arranged opposite hard-to-tail, like the common depiction of Pisces -- which I guess derives from the traditional Western "reading" of the constellation on the sky.
If the VMS was scribed North of the Alps, the Scribe may have never seen a scorpion. Could it be that he (or the author of whatever book he used as "inspiration") misinterpreted a double-scorpion sign of Arabic origin as a pair of crayfish?
All the best, --stolfi
Oscroft > 14-07-2026, 01:48 PM
(20-02-2026, 12:18 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am able to prove any part of the Voynich manuscript as a literal and accurate translation of 1 and 2 Enoch.
![[Image: writing.jpg]](https://voynich.nu/img/clips/writing.jpg)
Radim Dobeš > 14-07-2026, 02:16 PM
(14-07-2026, 01:48 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(20-02-2026, 12:18 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am able to prove any part of the Voynich manuscript as a literal and accurate translation of 1 and 2 Enoch.
Hi Radim Dobeš, please forgive me if I've missed anything in the 25 pages of this discussion, but I have to say I have seen nothing that comes remotely close to *proof*. I see an abundance of links between images (so far, as far as I can see, from much later than VMS) which appear to look similar - but no scholar in any discipline could possibly consider similar images as *proof*, especially not when separated by centuries.
So, as you claim you can *prove any part of the Voynich manuscript as a literal and accurate translation of 1 and 2 Enoch*, here's my challenge...
Provide the literal and accurate translation, glyph by glyph and word by word, of this...
No "this image looks a bit like this one, this might reflect the ideas of whatever...", give us the "literal and accurate translation" that you claim you are able to provide.
Oscroft > 14-07-2026, 02:20 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:16 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you
Oscroft > 14-07-2026, 02:27 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:16 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I also know that the First and Second Books of Enoch served as the source material for many (perhaps all) of the illustrations.
Radim Dobeš > 14-07-2026, 02:33 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:20 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:16 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you
So you accept that your claim that "I am able to prove any part of the Voynich manuscript as a literal and accurate translation of 1 and 2 Enoch" is entirely without justification?
Can you provide any single example from the VMS text, chosen by yourself, and provide "a literal and accurate translation"? Just one?
Oscroft > 14-07-2026, 02:35 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:33 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.not a translation
Radim Dobeš > 14-07-2026, 02:44 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:35 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:33 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.not a translation
Then that's not what I asked for, and not what you claimed you could provide, is it?
I think the time has come for you to put up or shut up - provide "a literal and accurate translation" of part of the VMS, or withdraw your claims that you can do so. There really is no other honest response.
Oscroft > 14-07-2026, 02:59 PM
(14-07-2026, 02:44 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:35 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:33 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.not a translation
Then that's not what I asked for, and not what you claimed you could provide, is it?
I think the time has come for you to put up or shut up - provide "a literal and accurate translation" of part of the VMS, or withdraw your claims that you can do so. There really is no other honest response.
Here is the source text. If my first post bothers you, feel free to ignore it, but you haven't yet commented on the theory regarding a connection to the Book of Enoch. Based on what I’ve seen of the Voynich manuscript so far, I believe this theory has merit. Or do you have any expert observations on the matter? Please do share them.
Radim Dobeš > 15-07-2026, 06:57 AM
(14-07-2026, 02:59 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:44 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:35 PM)Oscroft Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-07-2026, 02:33 PM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.not a translation
Then that's not what I asked for, and not what you claimed you could provide, is it?
I think the time has come for you to put up or shut up - provide "a literal and accurate translation" of part of the VMS, or withdraw your claims that you can do so. There really is no other honest response.
Here is the source text. If my first post bothers you, feel free to ignore it, but you haven't yet commented on the theory regarding a connection to the Book of Enoch. Based on what I’ve seen of the Voynich manuscript so far, I believe this theory has merit. Or do you have any expert observations on the matter? Please do share them.
You really need to justify or withdraw your claim that you can provide a "literal and accurate translation of any part of the VMS", which it's plainly clear that you absolutely can not do. Unless you are prepared to be honest, and open to challenges of your unsupported assertions, then frankly your arguments are not worth listening to.
I'm really trying to be constructive here, Radim, as I value all amateur research into VMS - but nobody can help if you're not willing to be honest with yourself.