-----Original Message----- From: Mauro Lacy > The language is a mystery. Encryption seems unlikely. A hoax seems very unlikely to me too. Probably an ancient, lost, secret language?
Now that you mention it - there is one group from that time and general geographic area which did use codes for secret writings, and to avoid the taint of "heresy" against you-know-who. That would be the Cathars or similar Gnostic cults. OTOH - They may have already been wiped-out by the time the manuscript was written. Or else - perhaps only the best coders survived, and this is the proof :) The prototype mentality for the computer geeks of today ? Jones
