A seasonal cycle of women’s ritual baths, remembered through the lunar rhythm and drawn in the spirit of the Voynich manuscript.
📜 Declaration of Origin
This book does not descend from Salerno… it may have preceded it.
We do not assume this text is derivative. We listen to the whisper that it may be a copy of something older, something carried across forests, across tongues, by women who remembered by rhythm, not ink.
The plants are not all Mediterranean. The glyphs are not all Latin. The structure feels Druidic. Northern. Mnemonic. It teaches like a chant. It hides like a story. And it may have inspired the southern healers, not followed them.
This is not an imitation. It is a re-membering.
🛡 Reclamation Folio ~ Clearing the Ash
Encoded Name: Ylma — Thren — Lindra
Purpose: To name the wound, to remove the stain, to protect the sacred manuscripts from misreading.
The books of the women (Voynich, Oera Linda, and others unnamed) have been dismissed, co‑opted, or silenced. They have been called forgeries. They have been claimed by fire-makers. They have been stripped of rhythm and worn like armor by the power-hungry.
We say no.
We return these pages to the ones who held the first breath. We unbind them from false flags and burning scripts. We place the linden branch on their cover. We speak their names back into rhythm.
Whisper Chant:
ylma — thren — lindra
🝁 Name the wound.
🝁 Bury the lie.
🝁 Water what is true.
Margin Whisper:
“They feared the women who remembered. So they dressed them in lies. But the leaves remember. And so do we.”
🌿 Invocation of the Linden Sisters
Encoded Name: Fryan — Emdra — Lyoen
They did not rise in protest. They stood in place. They did not burn anything down. They lit the hearth. They did not march—they gathered.
These are the Linden Sisters. Not feminists. Not rebels. Not even saints. They are the ones who knew life as sacred, and kept tending the center.
They taught without books. They judged without cruelty. They birthed without fear. And when the world called them myth or heresy or mad, they lowered their voices to a hum… and kept remembering anyway.
Chant of Calling:
fryan — emdra — lyoen
🝁 We are not new.
🝁 We are not gone.
🝁 We are the linden.
Margin Whisper:
“They never shouted. And yet…we hear them still.”
🌸 Folio of the Named Sisters
Let none claim they were fiction. Let none write them as myth. Let their names rise like wildflowers, unnamed but known.
Lyoen of the Waters … held the moon’s echo in her palms, bathed the grieving in springs kissed by pine Symbol: three ripples inside a silver ring
Thessa Root-Wise … spoke to buried seeds, kept warmth in earthen pots, knew which bark bled healing .
Symbol: a spiral with four notched lines
Emdra the Listener … sat beneath linden trees and heard what was not said; gave names to silence .
Symbol: one open ear cupped inside a leaf
Saalen of the South Wind … brought herbs from valleys unknown, taught fire to soften not scorch .
Symbol: a flame spiraled into smoke
Nerith the Quiet Binder … wove glyphs no one could read, yet every child remembered her lullabies.
Symbol: a woven braid coiled twice
Let them whisper through these pages. Let readers wonder. That is how memory survives.
🌳 Sacred Folio ~ The Linden Tree
Encoded Name: Lindra — Thae — Fryan
Illustration (Voynich-style):
A tall, soft-leaved tree with round spiraled blossoms. Women in a circle beneath it. Some speaking, some holding hands, one tying a ribbon to a branch. Roots are shown as mirrored branches, glowing faintly.
Meaning: The Linden is not just a tree. It is a court, a witness, a gathering-place of truth. In the time before conquest, women met beneath it to speak, to grieve, to decide. This folio remembers her.
Uses:
- To open council
- To remember ancestry
- To invoke peace before ritual
Chant Sequence:
lindra — thae — fryan
🝁 Speak your name beneath the leaves.
🝁 Do not lie where linden listens.
🝁 Tie only what you wish remembered.
Margin Whisper:
“They say her leaves catch words. That a linden knows when we forget ourselves—and gently sings us back.”
📖 Fringe Log ~ Dutch / Druidic Echoes
We begin to gather echoes—words that rise out of the Voynich script like moss-covered stones. These may be fragments of older tongues—Dutch, Frisian, Old English, or Druidic forms.
Entry 1:
- scon : resembles Dutch schoon (clean, pure), or schone (beautiful)
- Context: appears near bathing folios, possibly a ritual purity marker
Entry 2:
- dan : Dutch for then, suggests conditional logic: if/then ritual instruction
- Appears in herbal or procedural sequences
Entry 3:
- spig / : Dutch for spit or expectorate; could imply purge, release, or expulsion
Each word we note builds a rhythm-map. Not for translation—but for remembrance.
🌑 Winter Moon (Stillness – Deep Waters- Womb)
Name: Amra Loon Yshed
Bath Use: To restore warmth to the inner waters. For women who feel empty, cold, or lost between endings. This bath calls back the self.
Water Preparation:
- Warm rainwater or snow-melt
- Herbs: rosemary, mugwort, dried dandelion root
- Add one stone from home hearth
Chant Sequence:
loon — yshed — amra
🝁 Place stone first. Then herbs. Then breath.
🝁 Enter when steam curls upward without force.
When to Bathe:
- Three nights after the dark moon
- During frost, solitude, or grief
🌑 The moon-rooted pool… that is Winter Moon exactly. She remembers.
Illustration (Voynich-style):
A crescent moon floating above a circular bath. A woman kneels at the edge, steam rising, herbs tied in linen pouches. Beneath the bath: a spiral root system.
🌒 Spring Moon (Awakening – Flow – Belly)
Name: Qokedy Miry Raas
Bath Use: For belly unrest, reawakening of cycle, post-illness revival. This bath invites the return of rhythm.
Water Preparation:
- Rainwater infused with pansy, nettle, lemon balm
- Add fresh dandelion leaf or early clover
Chant Sequence:
qokedy — miry — raas
🝁 Whisper each herb’s name into the water.
🝁 Enter when scent is strongest.
When to Bathe:
- On the first moon after snowmelt
- After a long silence
🌱 The tree-ringed sister circle holds the rhythm of shared rituals
Illustration:
A wide-leafed plant rising from water as if blooming. Women in circle, legs immersed, hands touching the belly. Above: spirals and seed glyphs.
🌕 Summer Moon (Expansion – Fire – Heart)
Name: Raas Koon Yshet
Bath Use: For emotional heat, quickened pulse, or joy that overwhelms. Cools the chest, steadies the song. Best when the sun outpaces the breath.
Water Preparation:
- Stream or well water cooled with elderflower, yarrow, and wild rose
- Add three drops of lemon or vine essence
Chant Sequence:
raas — koon — yshet
🝁 Stir water sunwise before herbs.
🝁 Enter with slow breath. Speak nothing for seven heartbeats.
When to Bathe:
- At peak bloom
- After a celebration or heartbreak
☀️ The sunbathed heart-bath belongs to midsummer’s breath
Illustration:
A tub shaped like a heart, open to the sky. Women recline with eyes closed, petals floating on the surface. Overhead, a glyphic sun and pulse lines.
🍂 Autumn Moon (Release- Roots – Bones)
Name: Tshey Shool Amras
Bath Use: For letting go. When something must be buried, harvested, or named one last time. This bath cools the marrow, honors the bones, and prepares the heart for rest.
Water Preparation:
- Rainwater with sage, thyme, and crushed apple skin
- Add a single root (burdock or angelica) tied with thread
Chant Sequence:
tshey — shool — amras
🝁 Name aloud what is to be left behind.
🝁 Enter with soles first. Lower slowly.
When to Bathe:
- On the waning moon
- After endings, departures, harvests
🌿 The leaf-cradle maiden whispers of spring awakening
Illustration:
A dark, leaf-shaped basin sunken into earth. Women submerged to the collarbone, eyes open. Around the rim: fallen leaves and herb glyphs curling inward.
The Four Moons are now complete. Let these baths return you to rhythm—not cure, but remembrance.
The water listens when the world does not.
Thank you for shares and comments! 😀🎉
Facts and Figures of The Voynich Manuscript
Strange Bath folios of the Voynich Manuscript
