Folio 81r – Crossing the South Pacific

Captain’s Blog: 1/7/2024 Happy New Year Voynich Enthusiastic people – I love ya! May this be a truly remarkable year. To explain Folio 81r we need to go back to Folio 53r. Folio 53r is a major warning written in red, to the authors of the manuscript red means do not do this! But fromContinue reading “Folio 81r – Crossing the South Pacific”

Folio 75v-Folklore of the Groundsel Flower

April 30th, 2024 I’m not going to lie, I’m still giggling after discovering the ethnobotany folklore of 75v. The authors of MS 408 always have me in stitches, and they probably were drunk laughing when they came up with this one. The authors will insert clues to folklore that they want the reader to payContinue reading “Folio 75v-Folklore of the Groundsel Flower”

Folio 1r – Cartographers Orb Projection

Captain’s Blog April 21, 2021 (edited 6/24/2024) In Folio 1r, the authors of Yale MS 408 (Voynich Manuscript) text book describe how to use a spherical orb in order to observe the suns positions based on how the suns raise hit the sea-level at the horizon. Such orbs where used for thousands of years butContinue reading “Folio 1r – Cartographers Orb Projection”