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10 world secret books that still have no answers

There are many mysterious books in the world that we modern people cannot understand. In the end, where are they mysterious and why have they still not been able to be explained? Let's find out the top 10 most curious mysterious books in the world below.

By Ken DaklakPublished 2 years ago 5 min read

1. Chronicle of omens and prophecies

This book (Chronicle of Portents and Prophecies) was written by French humanist Conrad Lycosthenes in 1557. Inside are records of many things, from Adam and Eve to the Roman Empire, compared with stories In modern times, this book is like an encyclopedia.

The book has a lot of animals like engravings of rhinos and camels, but also strange humans and other monsters. This mysterious book describes many things that we all recognize, but also phenomena such as UFOs and sea monsters.

2. Voynich Manuscript

After being discovered in 1912, this book has always given researchers headaches until today, it is called the most mysterious book in the world.

This book has an unclear background, believed to have appeared in the early 15th century. Inside there are plants that we do not know about, and there are images of women bathing in tubs equipped with strange device. The book also contains astronomical knowledge that was not available at that time. This book is kept in the mysterious Beinecke book and manuscript library at Yale University, it is also known as "the unreadable book". The language in the mysterious book confuses cryptologists and still cannot be explained.

3. Rohonc manuscript book

This book was kept in Gustav Batthyany's library in Budapest, until it was donated along with the library to the Hungarian Technical University in 1838. To this day, the book's further origins are unknown. this book.

The typical character table has about 20-40 letters, so it's quite easy to replace encoding symbols with letters. But this mysterious book contains up to 200 types of letters, on 448 pages, so it has not yet been decoded.

4. The Red Book

Carl Jung (the father of psychology) began suffering from mental illness in 1913, and around this time he began writing a book called Liber Novus, which means "The New York" in English. In Latin, this book with a red cover was later called "The Red Book".

It took Carl Jung 16 years to write this book, and during that time he said he was dealing with his subconscious. Mr. Jung's successor kept this book for decades because he did not understand it clearly, and finally revealed it later.

In the book there are many pictures of him meeting ghosts and spirits on the way to hell. This mysterious book is considered by some to be a "crazy masterpiece", but others consider it "infinite wisdom". record".

5. Smithfield Ordinance

This book is a collection of canonical laws of the 13th century medieval period ordered by Pope Gregory the 9th to be collected. Such collections were quite common in those days, but what is strange are the accompanying illustrations.

The Smithfield Ordinance is an illustrated manuscript, combining images, calligraphy, and letters. The drafting process must have been very meticulous and expensive, because every drawing was done by hand. But the strange thing is, interspersed between the pages are violent scenes: giant rabbits biting human heads, geese killing wolves, unicorns... In the book there are also images of contempt for God and demons disguised as God and Cardinals.

6. Ripley scrolls

When Isaac Newton began entering the mystical world of alchemy, he mostly turned to the works of George Ripley - a famous monk and alchemist in the 15th century.

The Ripley Scrolls are named after him. The content of the book is the secret of finding alchemy in 20 years of traveling around Europe. Although the original copy of the book has been lost, 23 restored copies have been handed down. The largest scroll is up to 6m long, densely covered with illustrations that cover most of the area.

The images and text in the book teach us how to make the philosopher's stone, which is said to be able to turn lead into gold. Some say this was the source of Ripley's fortune so he could help the horsemen in Malta and Rhode Island.

7. The book Oera Linda

This is a strange manuscript that appeared in the 19th century, written in Germanic - the ancestor of German. The book describes nearly 4000 years of ancient Friesland's history, mythology and religion. Inside the book, there is also a description of the matriarchal clan that ruled the ancient world along with the lessons and the sinking of the Atlantic. This mysterious book was studied by the Nazis and is also known as Himmler's Bible.

8. The Dream of Poliphilus

Published in Vince in 1499, this book (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) has no author, but is believed to have been written by the parish priest Francesco Colonna. The images and writing in the book are extremely meticulous, written in Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew (ancient Hebrew).

The book tells the story of Poliphilus searching for the love of his dreams through a mysterious fable, including many unanswered secret words, leading to many theories and conjectures.

9. Seraphinianus manuscript

This two-volume encyclopedia, written by Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978, is filled with meticulous images to depict a hazy, surreal world.

The book was handwritten in a secret language created by Serafini, completely inexplicable. This mysterious book is still studied by cryptography experts to this day, and is often envisioned as the most bizarre encyclopedia in the world.

The only thing discovered so far: “Seraphinianus” is a variation of the name Serafini. Its alphabet has about 24 letters, and is unlike anything humanity has ever created.

10. Soyga's book

John Dee was a famous mathematician and astronomer during the time of Queen Elizabeth I in 1500. He was also interested in mysterious science and owned the largest library in England.

One day he discovered "The Book of Soyga" - written in mysterious secret language. He studied this book for a year and could only prove that this book was an outline of magic spells, but he could not decipher the secret words in it. During a trip to Europe, Dee asked a medium to send a supplication to the Archangel Uriel. The angel replied that this book was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden. When Dee asked how to decode it, Uriel said he couldn't, only Archangel Michael knew the secret.

After Dee died, this book was lost for 500 years. Two copies of this book appeared in the British library in 1994, but until now no one has been able to decode it.

Although no one has been able to solve the above 10 mysterious books yet, many scholars are currently trying to research them. Their content can reveal mysteries that humanity has never known. Hopefully these mysterious books can soon be decoded by humans.

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  • HK Decor2 years ago

    Very inspiring read, thanks for sharing. Please develop it further so I can have more of this interesting knowledge

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