VMs: about Leo Levitov and a few more questions

["adrian" <adrian@xxxxxx>]

Hello again,


I have found out recently about the works of Leo Levitov,
and his therory that VMS is a witchcraft book pretty well fits my (single,
unfortunately) translation.
He mentioned something about VMS being writen in several languages, Old High
German, Old French, Flemish...

I also saw that his work is highly controversial and not accepted too well.

I was wondering if anyone knows a few word of Flemish and these other old
languages, especially those regarding:
time, weather, medicines, songs.

And particulary, does anyone know what this word in its many variations
might mean:


Ulca - or even Vlea (if U is V and C is E)
Ulcul
Ulcux
Uilcux
Uclur







This is from Wikipedia:

Polyglot tongue
In his book Solution of the Voynich Manuscript: A liturgical Manual for the
Endura Rite of the Cathari Heresy, the Cult of Isis (1987), Leo Levitov
declared the manuscript a plaintext transcription of a "polyglot oral
tongue". This he defined as 'a literary language which would be
understandable to people who did not understand Latin and to whom this
language could be read.' He proposed a partial decipherment into a mixture
of medieval Flemish with many borrowed Old French and Old High German words.

According to Levitov, the rite of Endura was none other than the assisted
suicide ritual famously associated with the Cathar faith (although the
reality of this ritual is also in question). He explains that the chimerical
plants are not meant to represent any species of flora, but are secret
symbols of the faith. The women in the basins with elaborate plumbing
represent the suicide ritual itself, which he believed involved venesection:
the cutting of a vein to allow the blood to drain into a warm bath. The
constellations with no celestial analogue are representative of the stars in
Isis' mantle.

This theory is questioned on several grounds. One incongruity is that the
Cathar faith is widely understood to have been a Christian gnosticism, and
not in any way associated with Isis. Another is that this theory places the
book's origins in the twelfth or thirteenth century, which is considerably
older than even the adherents to the Roger Bacon theory believe. Levitov
offered no evidence beyond his translation for this assertion.


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