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The Hidden Book in Honor of the Sage

Inspired by the Voynich Manuscript. Translated through intuition, rhythm, and ritual memory.

🌿 Preface

This is not a translation.
This is a listening.

Each page echoes a voice.
Not loud, but steady.
Not declarative, but devoted.

The writer was no witch, no fraud, no mystery to herself.
She was a medicine woman.
A keeper of rhythm, of boiling points, of root-speak.

Here, we write in her style. For her. Through her.

📜 Folio f1v ~ Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Encoded Name: schoon – rasy – raas

Illustration: A sun-headed root plant with jagged rosette leaves, white sap veins, rising from dark soil. Its body says: “Lift. Cleanse. Listen.”

Use: For stagnation of the belly and fog of the head. Restores flow to the inner waters. A plant of clearing and lightening.

Ritual Chant:

qokedy — shedy

🝁 Boil once, then strain

schoon — tchor

🝁 When clear, root as core

raas

🝁 Speak name before sunrise to call clarity to the head

Caution:
Use in times of heaviness, not in depletion. Leave the bath when warmth returns to the limbs.

Margin Whisper:
“Let her sit in water no longer than it takes to hum the root’s name three times.”

📜 Folio f2v ~ Waterlily (Nymphaea alba or similar)

Encoded Name: yshed – loon – amra

Illustration: A long-stemmed bloom floating above wide round leaves, anchored in unseen mud. Its face reflects light, but it drinks from shadow.

Use: For inner heat, fever dreams, or unrest during the dark moon. Brings stillness to a rushing spirit. Cools inflammation, calms fear held in the chest.

Ritual Chant:

qokedy — shedy — loon

🝁 Steep gently. Strain through linen at twilight.

yshed — schoon — amra

🝁 If breath is short, float blossom in warm water.

🝁 When the water clears, breathe above it three times.

Caution:
Do not boil. Do not drink the root unless fever burns strong and moon wanes. Always test warmth before immersion.

Margin Whisper:
“For the girl who cannot sleep, whose limbs tremble—give her only petals. No root. Let her soak and sing.”

📜 Folio f9v ~ Wild Pansy (Viola tricolor)

Encoded Name: miry – koon – ysar

Illustration: A delicate tri-colored blossom with heart-shaped leaves, upright and open, facing east. Each petal speaks of remembering.

Use: For aching in the chest or the heart that cannot weep. Soothes grief lodged beneath the ribs. Used for both sadness and remembering joy.

Ritual Chant:

miry — ysar — shedy

🝁 Steep blossoms at dawn. Strain with breath, not hands.

koon — schoon — raas

🝁 If sorrow lingers in the voice, place petal on tongue before sleep.

🝁 If dream comes, do not chase. Just receive.

Caution: Do not use if anger is sharp. Only for soft ache or mourning that will not rise. Speak gently when preparing.

Margin Whisper: “For the widow. For the child who asks no more. For the voice that hums an old name—it is enough.”

📜 Folio f16r ~ Cannabis (If decoded)

Encoded Name: schoon – spig – raas

Use: For mind unrest, edge of fever, deep transition. Root of calm or flood—must be spoken to.

Ritual Chant:

qokedy — qokedy — shedy

🝁 Boil gently, then boil again. Then strain with silence.

schoon — dan — spig

🝁 When pure, proceed. Press only what rises.

raas

🝁 If storm enters the head, speak root’s name thrice—quietly, then rest.

Caution:
Never on a restless moon. Never when mind already wanders.

Margin Whisper:
“Offer song if confusion comes. Or wait five nights.”

📜 Folio f56r ~ Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

Encoded Name: shool — redy — qan

Illustration: A delicate, dew-tipped tendril stretching from dark earth, glistening under sun and moon. Tiny arms hold silence and catch what moves too fast.

Use: For cough that clings, for spirit that cannot settle. Draws out dampness held in breath. Known for soothing lungs, and catching runaway thoughts.

Ritual Chant:

shool — redy — qan

🝁 Drop fresh leaf into simmered honey. Stir only with bone or wood.

shedy — loon — schoon

🝁 If throat closes at night, warm mixture. Let her sip by moonlight.

🝁 Speak no words until breath returns.

Caution: Only gather at dawn, never after rain. Too much dries the chest. Only enough to coat the silence.

Margin Whisper: “For the girl whose voice was taken by smoke or sorrow—this dew is her return.”

🛁 Ritual Folio ~ Bath of the Fifth Moon

Encoded Name: loon — amaras — tshey

Illustration: Four women immersed in a crescent-shaped pool. Above them: stars and small herbs float like constellations. Below: channels carry warm water through root chambers. A fifth figure watches, not immersed, but humming.

Use: For mid-year rites. For women between cycles or states—those not bleeding, not birthing, not ending. This is for in-betweens. A return bath.

Bathing Sequence:

loon — qokedy — tshey

🝁 Add warm petals (pansy, lily, dandelion) to flowing water.

🝁 Sit in silence until the fifth breath slows.

schoon — amaras — raas

🝁 When all is quiet, speak a single name from your line.

🝁 Pour water from crown to womb. One ladle only.

Caution: Do not enter during eclipse. Do not use if bitterness remains. The water must not boil, only warm.

Margin Whisper: “Let the woman return to stillness by starlight, not by force. Let her remember who she was before the task.”

📜 Folio Tribute: Trotula Walks the Waters

Encoded Name: amaras — tralun — ysha

Illustration: A woman clothed in stars and herb-smoke, hand extended over a stone bath. Three younger women kneel near her, holding bundles of sage, rosemary, and dandelion. Behind them, an arch inscribed with cycles of the moon.

Use: To honor the lineage of healers who carried wisdom not through schools, but through steam. This is a folio for remembering the first teacher—not by title, but by rhythm.

Teaching Sequence:

tralun — schoon — amaras

🝁 Always cleanse before speaking.

🝁 Always warm the water before teaching.

qokedy — raas — loon

🝁 If a woman weeps, listen first. Then tend.

🝁 If she is silent, offer root before word.

Caution: Teach only what you have lived. Heal only what you have heard. Nothing is cured by hurry.

Margin Whisper: “She walked through Salerno as through her own house. Her hands were warm. Her questions sharper than blades. We do not copy her—we echo.”

🌌 Cosmology and Body Wisdom

The heavens do not instruct—they reflect. The medicine woman reads the moon, not to obey, but to time her touch.

Moon waxing: draw out. Extract. Encourage growth.
Moon full: clarify. Harvest. Speak loudly.
Moon waning: release. Cleanse. Cut away.
Moon dark: rest. Hide the roots. No brews, only listening.

Body zones align with sky zones:

Head → Wind, sky, stars — speak to calm or lift
Chest → Flame, heart, rhythm — bathe with flowers, light touch
Belly → Earth, digestion, root — use bitters and grounding
Womb → Water, moon, cycle — tend with warmth and ritual
Feet → Stone, return, stillness — salt, silence, settling

Timing is everything. Rituals done in the wrong phase unravel. A plant picked in haste remembers it. The woman tended before her season may not return to balance.

She knew. She watched the sky not to wonder—but to align.