你所不知道的奇幻世界:世界十大神秘天書
世界十大神秘天書
鍊金術、外星人、天堂和地獄、幻境與永生……這個世界上最廣大的,大概就是人的腦洞了吧。而自從文字出現以來,書籍就成為了這些腦洞的一大載體。在文學的世界裡,似乎一切都有可能發生,神秘的故事亦真亦幻,吸引了無數研究者。而其中有一些書,見證了神秘的巔峰。
Today, let』s learn something about the 「World』s 10 Most Mysterious Books」.
1
The Book of Soyga
索亞之書
據說這本書實際上是一本高級魔法書,需要依靠天使的力量才能破解其中的秘密。
John Dee, a great scholar of England in the 1500s, devoted his life to this mysterious coded book. He asserted that it was in fact a detailed compendium of ancient magical incantations. However, till now, no one can solve those codes.
16世紀的英國學者迪伊曾花費畢生心力研究這本神秘的密碼書。他堅信這是一本真正的魔法書,裡面詳細記載了古代的法術咒語。但這本書里的神秘密碼至今無人能解。
2
Cordex Seraphinianus
塞拉菲尼寫本
無人能解的文字,超現實主義的插圖,從未在地球上出現過的生物,這一切構成了《塞拉菲尼抄本》這部怪誕至極的百科全書。
It describes a strange and psychedelic universe in great detail, through outlandish illustrations. The whole book was written in a coded language created by the writer himself, which has proven to be undecipherable.
這本書細緻地描述了一個奇異的幻想世界,穿插了各種稀奇古怪的注釋。整本書都是由作者獨創的密碼寫成,完全無法破譯。
3
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
尋愛綺夢
這是一本精美的愛情寓言,但其中的密語卻啟發了許多陰謀家。
The book describes a mysterious allegory in which Poliphilo searches for his love through odd dreams. It is a very elaborated work and is written in a bizarre language based on Latin and Greek, and includes Arabic and Hebrew words.
這本書講述了一個奇幻的寓言故事,男主角普力菲羅在離奇的夢境里尋找真愛。這是一本精美的著作,文字也一樣難懂,基於拉丁語和希臘語,還夾雜了阿拉伯語和希伯來語。
4
The Oera Linda Book
歐拉琳達秘書
劫數論、民族主義、母系制,書里的內容很遙遠又與現實有著密切聯繫,該書似乎有一種神奇的力量預知著未來的變化。
Though the book first appeared during the mid-19th century, it is written in an old Germanic dialect claimed to be the ancestor of Greek and Phoenician alphabets. The content is so great that it covers nearly 4,000 years of history, mythology and religious themes from the ancient Frisian civilization.
儘管這本手稿首次出現在19世紀中期,它卻是以一種古老的日耳曼方言寫成,這種方言據說是德語和腓尼基語的起源。書的內容之廣,涵蓋了近4000年的古弗里斯蘭文明的歷史、神話和宗教。
5
The Ripley Scrolls
雷普利捲軸
神秘學最狂熱的追隨者就是鍊金術士了,而這本書就是一本「煉金石製作手冊」。
Ripley, the writer of this book was a renowned alchemist. The scrolls are thought to be the fruit of his search for alchemist secrets. The text and pictures show how to create the Philosopher』s stone, supposedly able to turn lead to gold, which some claim was the source of Ripley』s new wealth.
這本書的作者雷普利是個有名的鍊金術士。這些捲軸被認為是他搜集鍊金術秘訣的成果。書中的圖文介紹了如何製造可以「點鉛成金」的點金石。有些人認為正是這樣雷普利才有了那麼多財富。
6
The Smithfield Decretals
史密斯菲爾德法令
乍一看這是一本製作精美的法令集,但仔細審視這些插圖,就會發現裡面暗藏玄機。
The decretal was a collection of previous laws and was destined to replace them. But the anonymous manuscript contains particularly inappropriate images to illustrate religious texts such as pictures of killer rabbits and a man attacking a butterfly, and some are even blasphemous.
這部法令是用以取代之前法令的合輯。但是在這本書的匿名手稿中卻有著極其不恰當的圖畫來闡釋宗教教義,比如殺人的兔子,人攻擊蝴蝶。有的畫甚至褻瀆了神明。
7
The Rohonc Codex
羅洪特寫本
要說來源作者和文字破譯都全無線索的天書,那就是羅洪特寫本了。
It is considered one of the most mysterious books in the world, the origins of which are unknown. Its content is coded in an alphabet of more than 200 different symbols that hasn』t been cracked so far.
它被認為是世界上最神秘的書,來歷和起源都是迷。書中使用的語言體系包含200多種至今無法辨識的字母符號。
8
The Red Book
紅書
在與自身無意識的抗爭中領略天堂和地獄。
It was written by Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychology, during his serious mental issues. It is filled with disturbing scenes and dialogues with gods and devils occurring during travels to the underground.
它是由心理學領頭人之一的卡爾榮格寫成的,當時他正飽受精神疾病折磨。這本書的圖片和文字記錄了他在去地獄的旅途中與上帝和魔鬼的對話。
9
Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon
預言之書
這本書最神奇之處就是事實和幻想的混雜,讓人真假難辨呢。
The book contains chronicles from Adam and Eve to contemporary times. It depicts accurate animals and bizarre deformities of human, switching between facts and fantasy.
這本書記載了從亞當夏娃到近代文明的發展歷程。它介紹了動物的精確特徵,也記載了人類的畸形體,在現實和幻想間不斷切換。
10
The Voynich Manuscript
伏尼契手稿
有人說它是外星人所留下的紀錄,有人認為它是一本集所有知識之大成的書籍,但也有人認為他只是一堆不知所云的塗鴉,它就是《伏尼契手稿》。
It is referred to as the world』s most mysterious book. It contains drawings of plants that do not match anything we know, and there are also strange mechanisms and astronomy knowledge that wasn』t available at that time.
它被稱為世界上最神秘的書,裡面記錄的很多植物種類和我們所知的任何植物都不符,還有奇異的儀器和超出當時認知的天文知識。
來源:網易公開課 百度圖片
文案:於慕珠
排版:林愉淳
審校:江琳
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