- cross-posted to:
- creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
Hypotheses range from a script for a natural language or constructed language, an unread code, cypher, or other form of cryptography, or perhaps a hoax, reference work (i.e. folkloric index or compendium), glossolalia[19] or work of fiction (e.g. science fantasy or mythopoeia, metafiction, speculative fiction).
You should’ve blurred the pic, since that text definitely is not safe for work!
I’m leaning heavily towards hoax on this one. Surely some botanist somewhere would recognize the illustrations? Nowadays it’s a hard sell that there’s some secretly place somewhere that hasn’t been charted botanically.
This assumes that the book is a technical manuscript so the drawings of plants are intended as technical drawings of actual plants. But this might not be the case. For all we know the book might be a work of fiction so the illustrator took creative liberties while drawing the plants.
Fair point.