Cipher Mysteries

Here's a nice story that should bring heart to researchers struggling with uncracked homophonic ciphers (e.g. Zodiac Killer Ciphers, Beale Papers, etc). Kevin Knight, who Voynich Manuscript researchers may remember from various posts here, has now co-authored a 2011 paper with Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer from Uppsala University on how they cracked a hitherto unknown (to ...

Joseph Campbell wrote extensively about the "Hero's Journey", his condensation of mythology into the single ur-story (often referred to as the "monomyth")beneath it all. In recent decades, Campbell's work was popularized by Chris Vogler in his book "The Writer's Journey", that distilled the original 17 stages to a 12-stage / 3-act writing template. All of which makes the recent ...