Posted on 01/26/2018 9:01:47 AM PST by mairdie
For centuries people have tried to decipher the meaning of the Voynich manuscript, and now a computer scientist claims to have cracked it using AI.
The 600-year-old document is described as 'the world's most mysterious medieval text', and is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures.
The 240-page manual's intriguing mix of elegant writing and drawings of strange plants and naked women has some believing it holds magical powers.
But even the cryptographers from Bletchley Park, the team that broke the Nazi enigma code, couldn't make sense of the manuscript.
Now a computer scientist says the manuscript is written in ancient Hebrew and the code involves shuffling the order of letters in each word and dropping the vowels.
While his is still to decipher its full meaning, he believes the first sentence of the text says: 'he made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Peeps made to look like naked women?
The guy was way ahead of his time.
Looks a bit like some of the sad-hags at the wimmins march.
Aliens
Translation: Change their water at least once a week, and cut back on their carbs.
A hot tub mystic circle, or co-ordinated swimming display.
“naked women...magical powers”
That’s a universal constant, just like the gravitational constant G or Planck’s constant h. Some things just never change through recorded history.
Did Jack Daniels exist back then?
It would appear that Voynich has figured out how women work, and wanted to share that knowledge - unabridged - with the world.
I would like to think that the green is more aligned with grass (like an Easter basket) rather than fluid that color...
Whichever, it’s a mystery. Maybe Qanon can drop some hints...
Medieval Porn?.............
It says “be sure to drink your Ovaltine every day”
Guessing, but with the writing supposedly being Hebrew and the naked ladies in the tub, said tub is probably a mikveh.
Very hard to believe he didn’t at least consult a Hebrew language expert. Relying on “google translate” for research purposes is like being served a rewarded Big Mac at a steakhouse
Distilled liquors in Europe date to the 12th Century AD.
I’m no expert, but I thought old Hebrew did not have vowels in writing until Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, a Jewish scribe who lived in Tiberias in northern Israel and refined the Tiberian system of writing vowel sounds in Hebrew.
Originally, the Hebrew alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants, scribes later devised means of indicating vowel sounds by separate vowel points, known in Hebrew as niqqud.
How do you like that? The author of the Voynich Manuscript was Q-Anon's great-great-great-[lots more "greats" here]-grandfather.
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