Re: VMs: ... for dummies

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Xavier Ceccaldi wrote:

> 
>   a.. The first source is Voynich himself, but we need another independent source.



Well, I agree with this direction of thinking

When looking at pics in VMS, I think (hoax or not), it probably comes from 
places between where Voynich was expelled and, say, Lithuania.

BTW, it seems, we have totally forgot Lithuania in theories 
of VMS-origin. I did not find a better map for XV century:
http://www.poloniatoday.com/images/PolLith.jpg
but most of this poverful Polish-Lithuanian Union was the Lithuanian part, 
speaking mostly other languages, than the Lithuanian.

It was in 14-hundred-and something probably the most democratic 
place (ideologically) in Europe and began to change toward christianity (and 
the Polish language) only a generation after Tannenberg, in mid-1400-s.
Pagans, Jews, Christians with different 
roots lived together in "old*" Lithuania and this is probably the only 
place in Europe, where such a thing could peacefully exixt up to XV century.
Well, this lore of free mind was forgotten later - the history was written by 
others...

Relatively well is known the story of Lithuania's elite-troops of jewish cavalry
(no joke, boys - this originated from Khasaria), but the VMS has not 
their cultural fingerprints. But it could theoretically 
be some pagan "Metamorphoses" of herbal medecine...  ...and this makes sense in 
both contexts of origin (hoax/not hoax). 

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