The Voynich manuscript dates back at least to the seventeenth century, though it is possibly much older. Its pages are filled with hand-written text and crudely drawn illustrations. The illustrations depict plants, astrological diagrams, and naked women. These illustrations are strange, but much stranger is the text itself, because the manuscript is written entirely in a mysterious, unknown alphabet that has defied all attempts at translation.
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The Voynich manuscript is not a hoax. It is the discription of a voyage of someone that sailed the sea. He used the stars to navigate end described the places where he has been. I translated parts of the manuscript and made interesting discoveries. I made a link with the zodiacs in the voynich and other old star maps. I also linked the "cities map " with places on the earth. I translated parts of the manuscript and am sure it is not a hoax.
Posted by Jody Maat in Netherlands on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 01:30 AM
Maybe it's early klingon?
Posted by Guy Ritchie in bed with maddona on Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Perhaps it is a hoax... but check out my theory if interested: http://www.santa-coloma.net/voynich_drebbel/voynich.html Many "tubes" in the Voynich look quite like microscopes.
Posted by Proto57 in USA on Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 06:43 AM
Its not Welsh, its not Greek, its not even a foreign language that currently exists or has existed within the last 400 years. The form of writting being used is a type of shorthand, for what language, I don't know and I am not going to lie and say I do. The manuscript itself is not desribing the different uses of cannabis sativa nor is it describing any form of "super plants". You have to first of all be able to relate the drawings of the text, naked females (as assumed), plants, placement of stars and moon phases, etc. Have you ever watched a foreign film, and after a while you get the feeling you actually understand it? Thats kind of what you have to do with the manuscript, ACT like you understand it first, then try to decipher it. Relating drawings to the characters a picture develops, of what though? What could naked women, plants, and celestial beings have in common? The Voynich Manuscript is simple: Women have their menustral cycle once a month, generally towards the end, there have been many studies with herbs to find which could be a natural cure for cramps, period hemmoraging, and other feminine issues. What the Voynich Manuscript is stating is that someone was attempting to find a celestial link to a woman's period and ovulation cycle, and how taking certain plants and herbs could cure cramps, slow bleeding, act as a natural fertility drug, or just something as simple as a aphrodisiac. Also another celestial link is the 9 months a pregnancy takes, in that time they did not have the set months of sorts, therefore to determine the length of time a woman carries a baby, you would have to depend on the phases of the moon. Think this is dumb? Wait until some scientist can prove it, then I won't sound so crazy.
Posted by LMK on Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 09:57 AM
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