• Buglefingers
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    114 months ago

    The voynich manuscript. It’s so wild and interesting, a complete mystery too

    • palordrolap
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      14 months ago

      Not completely mysterious, but still largely so. The usual zodiacal constellations are listed, and the names therein have allegedly been decoded as resembling a Turkic language.

      That doesn’t mean it isn’t a hoax, only that someone with knowledge of a Turkic language helped create those pages in particular.

      • noughtnaut
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        24 months ago

        Even if it is eventually exposed as a hoax - that is, not as old as claimed or from a different or untrustworthy source - that works make the book no less of an impressive accomplishment and global mind fuck! 🤯 Whatever it really is, it’s a win.

      • Buglefingers
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        14 months ago

        The fact that there is something in there with credibility makes it further a mystery to me.