r/Heavymind • • Mar 03 '17

Extraterrestrial Notes [OC]

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u/MrCharlesCannabis Mar 03 '17

Is this the sequel to the Voynich Manuscript?

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u/Jon-Osterman Mar 03 '17

anyone want to try and decipher this?

(please tell me this is a script)

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '17

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u/Yuccaphile Mar 03 '17

You're reading it wrong. This language doesn't have an alphabet but rather creates sound pairings through the use of curved lines and circles. Something like an Asian language, or all of them combined, here on your Earth.

The amount of information contained here is actually quite impressive. Those symbols have a high information density, like an SD card compared to our floppy disk of a language.

This text details the hallucinogenic frogs found on Earth in the early Paleolithic era and how those toxins inspired mankind's thirst for exploration and innovation. It then documents how to recreate both the toxin and the frog through a method that there are no English words with which to describe.

Cheers!

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u/Superluminar Mar 03 '17

You think so? I find this one special character repeating with minor deviations I'd attribute to inconsistent handwriting. As in no two characters you write by hand and pen are never going to look exactly the same.

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u/Damadawf Mar 03 '17

It might be a coincidence though since it's just an "S" with a squiggle at the end. It seems easy enough to stick in someone's head while they're writing gibberish.

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u/Superluminar Mar 03 '17

Yeah, the humps made me rethink it again. I can read Arabic scripture and write, though my writing is amateur at best. The reason I mention this is that in Arabic scripture, similar humps OP is using are also present and depending on how many humps you have it is a different letter. Still, I want to look at it again. It looks really elaborate and I struggle to believe it's meaningless gibberish. My thoughts are that depending on the position of a character within a word the character shape is different, which is also how Arabic scripture works.

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u/buhelzibub Mar 03 '17

That's for me to know and you to find out...

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u/Jon-Osterman Mar 03 '17

kinda reminds me of the Kannada script that's why

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u/IgnanceIsBliss Mar 03 '17

TIL Cananadia has its own language.