Captain’s Blog: 1/31/2022
The Voynich Manuscript structure has been in recent past inaccurately categorized based on many factors. The literary structure of the Voynich Manuscript was designed to play out like Homer’s Iliad like an epic Trojan War. The following structure is an excerpt from our recent publication “The lost language of Braveheart, and Robert de Bruce King of Scots.”
- “Form: how a composition is organized defines what type of work it is. The VM’s form has been greatly analyzed over the last 100 years. Though, greatly misunderstood because it was analyzed by illustration alone without knowledge of the language or its context. The VM follows the same structure of the Greek tragedy, Homer’s Iliad.
- Intro (Prologue) : Folio 1r. Opening Letter, the purpose of the VM.
- Section A: Folio 1v – 57v.
- Parodos: Folio 1r (Greek theatre literally meaning of parodos “passageways”) the chorus aka “the authors” explains the VM’s illusion and how the passageways work and the math behind it.
- Episodes: Folios 1v-57r. Maps and Legends of – geographic locations, roads, ocean currents, wind currents, with short poetic navigational instructions.
- Stasimon:
- Folios 57-66. Instructions on how to calculate lighthouses and where to construct them and it’s measuring tools.
- Folios 67-74. The devices used to calculate the mathematics in MS408
- Section B (Episode): Folio 75-84. Epic Battle Scene. The War Strategy is depicted by code words and star clusters for Military Attack positions.
- Section C (Stasimon): Folio 85v-86r. Atlas of the entire MS 408 Corpus: example the upper right fortress is a Map of the Old Navarino Castle, Pylos, Greece.
- Section A1 (Episode): Folio 87r – 87v. Maps and Legends
- Section A2 (Stasimon): Folio 88r – 90r. Ship (1) Schematics
- Section A3 (Episode): Folio 91 – 96v. A New World
- Section A4 (Stasimon): Folio 99r – 102v. Recipes for Disaster-TORJAN HORSE
- Section E (Exodus): Folio 103r – 116r. A Legal Decree – Global Peace Treaty
- End: Folio 116v. Epic Warning!
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