speaking of ancient mysteries reified

ancient etruscan records of uncannily elongated strangers in their midst were recast in our modern context as slendermen—an example of the dialectical spiral recasting something that always looms in our collective subconscious into a figure that makes more sense in our modern context. in a similar vein, the voynich manuscript is a mysterious 15th-century codex of natural (often strange) phenomena written in an as-yet indecipherable language. for reasons that have yet to be revealed, this was reflected in the similarly strange and indecipherable 20th-century codex seraphinianus, which the author was compelled to painstakingly create over countless hours for reasons that even he couldn’t fully explain. what archetypal wisdom (or warnings) are so urgent as to be reiterated in these ways? mysterious indeed