The Yale College Library homes a medieval manuscript written in indefinable code, an unknown alphabet, and an unknown language. It incorporates detailed drawings of multiple hundred crops, none of which has ever been positively recognized. The Voynich manuscript, named after a bookseller who purchased it a century in the past, has been referred to as probably the most mysterious manuscript on this planet.
Students imagine that Voynich was written someplace in Europe, however unknown by whom. The textual content of Voynich just isn't useful in figuring out authorship, because it has by no means been decrypted and a number of the greatest cryptographers on this planet have tried. However because the previous saying goes, "An image is price a thousand phrases," and the Voynich manuscript is stuffed with footage. From these drawings, I concluded that the authors have been the manuscript of Cathar, a sect of spiritual heretics who prospered in Southern Europe within the 12th and 13th centuries. The proof is as follows:
a) In at the very least two separate passages, the Voynich Katharinnen, performing a baptismal ceremony, referred to as consolamentum, reveals the one sacrament of Catharism. The Katharerkirche had no formal clergy, so {that a} lay spirit of each sexes was licensed to carry out this sacrament.
b) The Voynich reveals the spherical desk of the ruling lay clergy of the Cathar Church each in European winter (mixture of women and men, totally clothed) and in a summer season resort (now solely bare ladies sitting in a circle). In contrast to different medieval religions, ladies performed an essential position within the Katharenkirche.
c) The Voynich reveals a European fortress with a spherical, conical tower, in addition to the related towers of the nonetheless current Carcassonne fortress, which was as soon as a stronghold of Catharism and is now recognized for its torture museum gear that was utilized by the Cathars to persuade, to show again.
d) Though the underlying alphabetic characters of Voynich are unknown, the manuscript makes use of recognizable accent marks: Three totally different Voynich accents (hook accent, bloop accent and crossbeam accent) are discovered within the Homilies d & organata, a manuscript of the traditional Catalan language, ie a member of the Occitan language household spoken by the Cathars.
e) A number of the ladies in Voynich put on an uncommon coiffure that may be seen in Europe in a medieval portray depicting Cathars from Carcassonne.
Additionally observe that the Cathars, greater than some other medieval Europe, have needed to write in code resulting from extreme Inquisition prosecution. The Inquisition burned all of the Cather literature they might get their palms on. So it was not recognized if there have been some other manuscripts within the Voynich scriptures earlier than.
Radiocarbon specialists on the College of Arizona date the Voynich manuscript to the early 15th century between 1404 and 1438 AD, which leads us to a serious anomaly. It's believed that the Cathars - each half million of them - have been extinct within the early 14th century and have been worn out by the papal campaign and inquisition torture chambers. There have been no recognized survivors besides studies {that a} handful of Cathars escaped within the 12 months 1244 simply earlier than the bloodbath of Montsegur and carried the sacred relic of their religion. Apparently neither this escape nor her sweetheart (which some imagine as esoteric texts or the Holy Grail) have been ever discovered.
The thriller turns into obvious after we uncover that no European botanist has ever recognized one of many multiple hundred crops detailed within the Voynich manuscript. This provides rise to the suspicion that they might not be crops of Europe, however a distinct place. Given the big variety of unique crops which might be depicted within the manuscript, one rapidly involves thoughts the Amazon rainforest of South America. This might additionally clarify all of the bare ladies seen within the Voynich manuscript, d. H. The survivors of Montsegur fled to the tropics, the place clothes was not notably crucial.
I used to be thrilled to discover a image of an Amazon plant with sharp inexperienced leaves and crimson berry bushes that seemed identical to one of many Voynich crops, however then I found that comparable crops exist elsewhere. The Voynich, nevertheless, has some very peculiar crops, so it may be assumed that these are purely invented customs. Such an attachment is positioned between pages 2 and three of the Yale PDF file, which is offered on-line. I discovered a contemporary {photograph} of this plant and obtained the correct to publish it on my web site. There I'm presently ready for the opinion {of professional} botanists, whether or not it's precisely the identical species or not.
It's uncertain that this plant - a tropical underwater plant of surprising form with a flowery offshoot missing in branches and leaves - may even survive in Europe, not to mention there. Whether or not resulting from sickness, headhunter or maybe by mingling with the natives, no Cathar settlement within the Amazon rainforest survived to see the arrival of the Conquistadors, however the Voynich manuscript nonetheless raises the fascinating chance that the French Cathars took the People earlier than the Spaniards reached. for greater than 200 years.
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