I have been aware of the mysterious Codex known as the Voynich Manuscript for many years, but have never decided to research it, until very recently, when other research stretched into its sphere.

I am not going to express much of my analysis of the whole manuscript or even the aforementioned foldout (pictured above).  I just wanted to document, and share more widely, some thoughts I shared on voynich-ninja.com previously.

I am suggesting the four corner “rosettes” represent four of our senses, and/or the organs we experience them through: The Eye (sight), The Mouth (tasting), The Ear (hearing), and The Nose (smelling).

The bottom left corner is the starting point, and is referring to, the Eye.

Very easy to see the somewhat abstract representation of an eye.  (I hope you Stargate franchise fans enjoy seeing the symbol on the bottom left.)

The next rosette incorporates the same image communication with an abstract but recognizable, representation of a mouth, teeth included.

The top right corner is where a significant change takes place in the manner in which the concept communicated is evoked!  Now it uses imagery of the place(s) you would experience it.  There is no obvious graphical representation of an ear.  In its place are large crashing waves whose volume and repetition echo off the great walls, of great castles, and swirl into your ears with the roar of a whirlpool.  Please, forgive my poetic turn, but I believe it is in keeping with the imagery, and myself.

 

The change in manner of communication continues with rosette 4, and completes a bi-section of the foldout.  One side communicates in one style, and the other side communicates in another; while maintaining the unifying theme of the senses.

This rosette image is the only one I am going to rotate to impose a certain point of view.  (I try not to make anyone go down the common Voynich path of; “Stand on one foot with your left eye covered, then hold it just like this, and you can obviously see…”) It’s really just for expediency.

I am claiming this represents the nose, and the sense of smell.  The manuscript creators do this through the commonly used imagery of the Spice Bazaars of the Middle East.

This is merely a quick initial analysis of the first level of communication.  But, there is an interesting, and validating(?), secondary imagery communication that is; the connecting of each of these senses, with their complementary sense.  Ones, in which we understand and perceive, to be connected.  (I have referenced this imagery with the letters.)

Rosette 1 dealing with vision, is connected with rosette 3, hearing.  We experience the world through Sight and Sound.  Perhaps our most dominate senses, which surely compliment each other.

In this imagery, the ears (c) are sending and the eyes (a) are receiving.  The receiving represented in a “BANG” and a horn directed at the rosette.

 

 

Rosette 2 (b) the Mouth, is connected and sending to (4d) Smell.  What we think of as taste, is actually the combination of flavor (b) and smell (d).  These two are therefore, truly connected in obvious ways.

 

I will end here.  I again, just wanted to further document some ideas shared elsewhere.  I have not come to any conclusions, nor, am I representing a ‘complete’ hypothesis.  I am merely presenting some ideas for consideration and discussion.  I hope I have given the crypto/word/language sleuths some new concepts to be found represented in the text (if I have, you must share with me!), and maybe entertained a few others.

 

Mutemandeafcat

 

P.S.  I will take a little time to propose the idea of perhaps there being some real anatomic structures being represented.  In the mouth rosette, it could be implying taste buds, in other places sensory hairs.  Could the mappa mundi image in the top right of rosette 3 be a representation of the ear drum?  The ‘sending’ unit of the same rosette(3); are those nerve fibers or just water?

Are the lines with circles, going up on one side and down on the other, strikers of a type of pellet drum?

This foldout, like the entire codex that encompasses it, is full of mysteries and invitations to the creative mind like none other.  It is a black hole that thousands have fallen into (I would call it a Rabbit hole, if I had heard of someone escaping its gravitational pull!)

I have not, seen or heard, or know of, these concepts (except the eye and mouth, of course.) being communicated anywhere else, and were the complete product of my own brain and understanding of the world.