fett on 28/3/2010 at 01:18
Quote Posted by witherflower
You've researched this? Intriguing...
Well, "researched" is probably too strong a word. I read a lot about it and have some background in languages, but it wasn't "serious" research. I considered using it as a griffin in a book I was writing, but that's been done quite a bit already. Still, pretty creepy stuff.
Tonamel on 28/3/2010 at 01:48
Quote Posted by fett
I considered using it as a griffin
Did you mean (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin) MacGuffin, or is griffin a literary term I'm not aware of?
PigLick on 28/3/2010 at 02:17
I think he meant an actual griffin, you know like harry potter and stuff
fett on 28/3/2010 at 05:33
Nah, I meant MacGuffin. I'm on a lot of meds right now, you'll have to bear with me. At least that's my current excuse. :erm:
witherflower on 28/3/2010 at 06:29
Quote Posted by fett
I considered using it as a griffin in a book I was writing, but that's been done quite a bit already. Still, pretty creepy stuff.
Interesting... I was working on something similar a few years back. It was a different and imaginary scripture. But it was dug up on Easter Island and sort of tied the lost civilizations together. After a little research it occured to me that it was a total rip-off of certain other literary works basically, so I abandoned it.
@frozenman & Bluegrime : I didn't know about the Bloop. Thanks for enlightning me.
Nicker on 28/3/2010 at 11:50
The (
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/) Codex Gigas is another fascinating book. The name means Giant Book and it is just that, the largest surviving medieval manuscript known; 92 cm (36.2in.) tall, 50 cm (19.7in.) wide and 22 cm (8.6in.) thick. Bound in wood and metal it weighs in at 75 kg (165 lbs).
It is perhaps not as mysterious as the Voynich Manuscript, unless you choose to believe the legend that it was written in a single night, by a monk who was walled up in his cell for extreme naughtiness and who enlisted the help of the Devil, paying tribute with a full page portrait of the Arch Demon himself (and the monk's immortal soul, of course). Thus the Gigas is also known as "The Devil's Bible".
Both the Old and New Testaments are included along with various reference works, calendars, an encyclopedia, histories and such.
Another claim I have heard for it is that it contains no writing errors.
It more likely took the single scribe anywhere from five to twenty years or so to complete it. The consistency of the writing shows no signs of fatigue, aging or disease so the monk (possibly 'Herman The Recluse') must have been tough as nails and a classic case of OCD.
Scots Taffer on 29/3/2010 at 02:50
I love this shit, especially the Antikythera Mechanism - makes you wonder what civilisations came and went before us and how much we really know about what they are capable of. Also allows you to spiral off into daydreams where an expedition finds a ruined city under the sea and electronic components that date back over 10,000 years... DUN DUN DUNNNN. Twilight zone fun.
One of my personal favourites on the WTF scale is: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)
An unknown compelling force? This alone is bizarre, maybe you could argue for an avalanche that then somehow subsided/melted to reveal the bodies, but then there's the presence of radiation... and the woman missing a tongue... and the fact that they weren't dressed properly.
You see things like this and you sit and think, and think some more, and still get no closer to feeling certain about what is
out there we don't know about. It obviously gets a little tin-foil-hattish to start considering cover-ups as the reasons why we don't hear about these things, but clearly the government does shield some things from the great unwashed from time to time and who's to know why.
