“Among other revelations, he discovers it was a treatise on Spacesynth“, says the author of the following video, Hagar Hogan. I’m not sure if that actually helps explain it, but it may possibly be some kind of starting point. For some people.
This has taught me a lot about the relationship between Mario and Luigi and the Voynich Manuscript. But probably more about where the volume dial is on my speakers.
Of course, readers might consider that the above is a waste of time, and that I should instead use my blog as a platform for discussing serious-minded Voynich videos by earnest researchers.
Here, it has to be said that I’m specifically thinking of “Mystical Voynich Manuscript Interpretation – Part 1” on the ‘High Elven Wisdom And Love’ YouTube channel. Its author is “an empath […] an elvenkin […] a soul that expresses themself as an elf in this lifetime”, and who wants to post 45-minute videos on the powerful energy behind the Voynich Manuscript.
Me, I’ll stick with Mario, if that’s ok with you. 😉
About as scientific as a recent Springer publication…
But how does Ma(gic) Johnson fit into the equation? Luigi must change the pipe, or Mario will break his arm. Ma(gic) Johnson says he “gets” it. What does he get? What strange, arcane revelation has he unearthed? These are the true mysteries.
Seriously though, seeing this made my year. Keep on keeping on, my dude. We’ll crack the code someday!
About the second – As so often, some acute observations overlaid with subjective nonsense. Not all that different from some of the speculative efforts made by more dedicated Voynicheros.
But there are some good moments.
From 25:35 she’s actually making a fine distinction, in seeing that the lines in the stem represent ‘energy’ rising from the root. Her ideas about energy may be spiritualised, but that observation is good – and not many Voynich writers have made it. In other cases, lack of comparative studies really shows (as it does in many Voynich efforts). So in the next page, she seems unaware that some plants have naturally variegated leaves.
She also realises (as so few botanists have done) that it isn’t intended as a ‘botany journal’…
She would have done better to talk about what she sees, not what philosophy she thinks it reflects… but again, we could say the same of the ‘alchemical’ nuts.
I have no idea what she’s talking about, but one look is enough to say that she has too often seen “Lord of the Rings”.
And the hangman, what are “alchemical nuts”