syzygy -- Elmar Vogt
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:18 am
Hi all,
I'm Elmar Vogt, using the handle "syzygy" here on the board.
I was pretty active in the Voynich community some years ago and fed my more or less half-baked theories into a blog of my own (https://voynichthoughts.wordpress.com/), but then dropped from sight due to a lack of interest. But, as you can tell, it seems I'm picking up a little speed again...
My current stance on the Voynich is undecided, while I think Rich has made many good arguments for the VM being a fake by the hand of Voynich, I think an equally well case can be made for the VM being authentic. In either case I do think that it's not gibberish, but a fiendishly cleverly enciphered text, and that's also my main interest: I'm not so much interested in the history of the VM but in its contents. I have a hypothesis that it's been done by decomposing the plaintext letters into their constituent components ("strokes"), but I guess I'll better explain this elsewhere.
Mundanely I'm hailing from Germany, and make a living as a tech writer for a major German electronics company. Besides that, I've published a few book and plays.
Cheers,
Elmar/syzygy
I'm Elmar Vogt, using the handle "syzygy" here on the board.
I was pretty active in the Voynich community some years ago and fed my more or less half-baked theories into a blog of my own (https://voynichthoughts.wordpress.com/), but then dropped from sight due to a lack of interest. But, as you can tell, it seems I'm picking up a little speed again...
My current stance on the Voynich is undecided, while I think Rich has made many good arguments for the VM being a fake by the hand of Voynich, I think an equally well case can be made for the VM being authentic. In either case I do think that it's not gibberish, but a fiendishly cleverly enciphered text, and that's also my main interest: I'm not so much interested in the history of the VM but in its contents. I have a hypothesis that it's been done by decomposing the plaintext letters into their constituent components ("strokes"), but I guess I'll better explain this elsewhere.
Mundanely I'm hailing from Germany, and make a living as a tech writer for a major German electronics company. Besides that, I've published a few book and plays.
Cheers,
Elmar/syzygy
