Voynich Vault

By Whimsy & Grey 

Well, this was always going to happen.

I fell down a rabbit hole of the Voynich mania in the late 80s, and every few years, I spend months reading, comparing, and lighting candles for inspiration on ….

The absolutely insane lore of the Voynich Manuscript. 

The text brims with unexplained symbolism and glyphs and inspired a nickname for the language it potentially uses called “Voynichese.” It has been rattling historians, code breakers, and a pile of scientists for 600 years. 

Nothing. Not one budge. Not one single agreed correct translation or clearly deciphered section, word, phrase, or label. Even what is presumed to be 12 zodiac signs is no boost to progress.

The images hint at the influence of astrological knowledge, perhaps so earth-shattering that keeping it from the church was deemed critical?

We should reasonably be able to infer the known modern labels and work to decipher from the known to reveal the unknown, right?  No! Because the  Voynich label for each of the 12 is the same throughout??? Whether time or a hanging interrupted the cipher or translation notes, we may never know. Ghost cats and aliens probably wrote it, or someone channelled other star-beings to get it. 

Even with the crazy glyphs, the leaves and plants seem earthly and botanical, and hint at sub-tropical or tropical regions; I am very willing to discuss some pretty wild theories- maybe the images are deliberately placed to hide some knowledge beneath them? X-rays don’t tell that story, but who knows?? 

The folios with clear solar/lunar/feminine rituals/birth cycles in round charts or calendars are where I think the solution will likely spring from. These illustrations of cycles may be the most helpful; the illustrations hint at natural science knowledge sacred to the writer, perhaps the language was coded or lost. Whatever these illustrations are trying to capture, there is a crucial congruency to the cyclical nature of plants, be they medicinal or food sources, and the regenerative cycles of women and their sacred bodies of creation.

I do like the theory that a woman, perhaps many women, kept this book to act as a first handbook of female biology and/or plant medicine. I hope that’s true. I hope women have kept men in a state of hair-tearing misery over our first medical text on our own bodies for more than 6 centuries. 

Please, please let that be true and let it be confirmed in my lifetime.