Codex Seraphinianus
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2016
- The Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.
Originally published in Italy, it has been released in several countries.
The Codex is an encyclopedia in manuscript with copious hand-drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical flora, fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods. It has been compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript, the story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges, and the artwork of M. C. Escher and Hieronymus Bosch.
The illustrations are often surreal parodies of things in the real world, such as a bleeding fruit, a plant that grows into roughly the shape of a chair and is subsequently made into one, and a copulating couple who metamorphose into an alligator. Others depict odd, apparently senseless machines, often with delicate appearances and bound by tiny filaments. Some illustrations are recognizable as maps or human faces, while others (especially in the "physics" chapter) are mostly or totally abstract. Nearly all of the illustrations are brightly coloured and highly detailed.
The false writing system appears modeled on Western writing systems, with left-to-right writing in rows and an alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters, some of which double as numerals. Some letters appear only at the beginning or end of words, similar to Semitic writing systems. The curvilinear letters are rope- or thread-like, with loops and even knots, and are somewhat reminiscent of Sinhala script.
In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009, Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codex's script, which is asemic; that his experience in writing it was similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults. However, the book's page-numbering system was decoded by Allan C. Wechsler and Bulgarian linguist Ivan Derzhanski, and is a variation of base 21.
The book is in eleven chapters, in two sections. The first section appears to describe the natural world of flora, fauna and physics. The second deals with various aspects of human life, including garments, history, cuisine and architecture. Each chapter seems to address a general encyclopedic topic, as follows:
1. Types of flora: strange flowers, trees that uproot themselves and migrate, etc.
2. Fauna (animals), including surreal variations of the horse, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and birds
3. An apparently separate kingdom of odd bipedal creatures
4. Physics and chemistry (generally considered the most abstract, enigmatic chapter)
5. Bizarre machines and vehicles
6. The humanities: biology, sexuality, aboriginal peoples, including some examples with plant life and tools (e.g. pens, wrenches) grafted onto the human body
7. History: people (some only vaguely human) of unknown significance, with their times of birth and death; scenes of historical and possibly religious significance; burial and funereal customs
8. The Codex's writing system (which is to say, the - or probably, a - writing system of the world (if a world it is) from which the codex originates, or which it documents), including punctuation marks, the text being written, and experiments performed upon the text
9. Food, dining practices, garments
10. Bizarre games, including cards, board games and athletic sports
11. Architecture
After the last chapter is a table of contents or index, followed by an apparent afterword whose writing is more casually rendered.
Two plates in the sixth chapter contain lines of French text, a quote from Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue" (In Search of Lost Time: Albertine Gone). The words scattered on the floor of the illustration are from the same book.
Baird Searles, in Asimov's Science Fiction (April 1984), says "the book lies in the uneasy boundary between surrealism and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact".
Douglas Hofstadter, in Metamagical Themas, finds many of the illustrations "grotesque and disturbing" and others "extremely beautiful and visionary". He says the book "seems [to some people] to glorify entropy, chaos, and incomprehensibility".
American journalist Jim Dwyer finds that the work is an early critique of the Information Age.
[from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_S...]
Music: William Basinski "El Camino Real"
This "book" is not meant to be read. It is to make you re-experience when you were 4-8 years old and reading an encyclopedia, staring at the pictures and not reading the words.
What 8 year old can't read?
4-6 year old would be terrifled of those creepy fish eye things 😬
It might be useful to reverse the old entropy of our new constitution!
One of the most insane words i've heard about this book could be concluded only by a one sentence : "The Child was Growing, The Dream Was Dead!"
r u sure?
I think Serafini was simply making a modern Voynich manuscript, a book not meant to be understood. His images also appear to be inspired by the work of Hieronymous Bosch.
Voynich is actually not an enigma anymore in the future 29/04/19 a linguist from bristol (gerard cheschire) has discovered it is written in a popular version of latin and that it is talking about astrology astronomy herboristery and some other stuff it was made for maria de castille queen of aragon (1416 158) by dominican nuns.
there is a mexican guy transalating the voynich manuscript check it out "sergio gudino"
I confused them i thought it was the same thing hahah
My favorite thing about this book is how you can tell there’s continuity, you can tell everything makes sense and adds up to a real world. There’s just not enough info to figure out how.
he's an amazing artist, maybe not the best at realism, but his use of colors and imagination more than makes up for it
SAM Nassif Agree.
This type of artwork is called surrealism, my favorite art form :)
SAM Nassif Drawings are not always supposed to be realistic. There are many art styles, and realism is just one of them, not the best.
this is the perfect embodiment of dreamcore, the yearning for what its like to re-experience childhood nostalgia. a book made to replicate our childlike minds of curiosity.
The music give this amazing effect of wonder of this world he created as if we see a new alien and know how they live, think and feel in a way...so bravo on the music choice and bravo to the amazing artist!!
Tian Oosthuizen 👌🏾
Accurate.
Maybe one day we'll get Del Toro to make a movie about this book or something. Maybe someone ends up in this world and no one speaks English and it's just a crazy 2 hours incomprehensible trip as he tries to get back. Like Alice in Wonderland but no one understands you.
That could actually be genius. A bit like Annihilation or something along those lines could work.
A cool horror movie concept hard to pull off but if done correctly great movir
Would be the best Isekai yet.
Now the important question is if this movie happened should it be a 3D animated movie or live-action movie? I personally prefer to be animated, but that is just me
What would the language sound like though?
Don´t know if I should feel uncomfortable or fascinated.
yes
you should feel ÆGH
We cling to our reality and look to make connections with everyone and everything in it. Otherwise we’d go insane.
Got this book as a present a while ago, the sketches are mind-blowing and the book itself, the quality of the paper (i think its called crenellated) its amazing too. Also, you always choose great music for your videos :)
+Sun For Sunday
Thank you!I hope I will have a chance to own or at least see the book once in my lifetime :)
+Sun For Sunday I agree.... amazing musical sounds! And so in harmony with the amazing, truly amazing art works.
Sun For Sunday can u lend it me?
anyone who wants to see this can download it for free. just google it. I got this, the book of soyga, and the voynich manuscript.
Thanx to you all!!
Trying to make sense of this... information, is to drive yourself insane. This book is genius.
It was the Italian illustrator or author luigi serafini ☘️
But to me the planet looks a lot like another with that strange book
When you look at the Codex Seraphinianus you wonder, when you look at everyday nature you don’t. You take nature for granted while marveling at the imaginary.
If we think of other worlds, our imagination tends to be bound and constrained by the earth-centric and the ethnocentric, it is informed by our physics and biology. This can be seen in our science fiction works. Creatures are different in our imagination but still require a head, two eyes, symmetry, reproduction, etc. Our imagination is bound by the terrestrial. If we were to look at another world, its cataloguing would be through our language and codices, regardless of what we see.
If beings from another planet were to look at our planet, is the codex how they'd see it through their eyes.
If they imagined our world, is this how they'd envision it?
Yeah i think so too
I like this
1000 years later - who wrote this? ALIENS?
😂
It was written in the 80s from what I hear
Voynich 2.0
Interesting that his brain can imagine these.....
I doodle stuff like this
he was on a really intensive drug almost the full 4 years he wrote it
Everybody can come uo with random drawings but it takes sophistication and patience to put them all neatly into a work like this
Fascinating, it's almost as if the music chosen here was composed entirely based on the alien nature of the illustrations in that book.
Some illustrations here reminds me of the art style of the French 70s animation film: Fantastic Planet
Even though I dont know you, the fact that you referenced Fantastic Planet makes you more than OK in my book, sir/ma'am
@@im_beta_youre_vhs6048 thank you
I was thinking the same thing!
Same!!!
El codex Marihuanianus.
cesarcdx lsd
The music sounds exactly what your dream would sound like but it’s playing but you barely notice it because you’re watching what many see in dream that looks like a normal scenario or absolutely no sense, strange, weird, impossible or frustrating.
¡Hermoso trabajo! No conocía esa enciclopedia. La música a ésta le viene de perilla. Totalmente mágica.
Mis parabienes.
🇨🇱
Imagine if aliens came to earth and accidentally grabbed this book to study and understand us.
I think this book wants to tell us if our technologies were made with living things instead of matters.....
Some seem to be metaphors for certain things like the gun hand thing the person gets a award for being ready to kill with his victims skulls down under
Amazing. Must say, however, I will never look at an alligator or a crocodile the same.
i want to be inside this guy's mind. must be like having a field trip to wonderland.
he was on drugs the whole time, there's a great wored interview
Like Tim Burton’s hypeman or some shit
Take LSD then smoke some pot.
He doesn't even look like a drug dealer tbh
Most of these alleged "artists" of whom we learn extensively throughout schooling and personal interests dabbled heavily in drugs and spiritual mysticism or even received formal kabbalistic studies, all of which temporarily transforms subjective consciousness allowing penetration into alternate dimensions which gives way to bizarre and novel insights.
Doesn't look that it has a secret code in it, looks more like a piece of art that opens various interpretations.
*ArcanHage* precisely
Except it looks like the symbols are supposed to mean something like a scientific Observation
I downloaded the PDF : FASCINATING !
where u got from
Where u find it bro
[url]www.mediafire.com/?nnynjgynoio[/url].
I believe you can just google “this book” pdf and find it there.
Let me declare all geniuses drugged, since I am not ready to handle this much creativity.
It’s almost sad how people do that.
We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
This doesn't look like a different universe to me, it looks like the between the lines of of our world; the ways we destroy, praise and ignore it, the fucked up reality of human action and the losing demise of mother nature. The words seem like incoherence but the desire to speak, as if understanding isn't enough to comprehend. But who actually knows, open to interpretation and theres the beauty of it, besides the illustration :)
Kye BubbleGrunge That was a great analysis!
Kye BubbleGrunge EXACTLY people are way too unappreciative with what we are given
Kye BubbleGrunge you r right
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Look at how unique all of our minds have the potential to be when not distracted by poison, corruption and lies. (Social media, main stream media, sports, politics, fake news, fear, etc.)
If only the world could wake up and see
Its weird but I feel as though in a previous life I actually lived in that universe
God I feel that way too. I thought I would never find someone like me.
@@h3llena._ yeah it's very reassuring
8:52 dude on the right breaking serious wind. Not meant derogatorily - I just can't imagine what else that could be.
Cool art and neat concept.
This video with that music is so surrealistic. I would wish live in that universe
this guy's drawings are really interesting yet we may never know what it says.
Hmm... I think he’s trying to explain how horses in the world are so heavy that they need wheels, and that they were so slow, praying mantises built their egg sacs upon the horses to ensure they end up somewhere completely different from where their egg sacs were placed in order to ensure that mantises become more adaptable through evolution, and the horse doesn’t mind this after getting its wheels from the native people there, kinda like the papilloma virus.
interesting
This is so cool. I was getting into the Voynich Manuscript but this is even wierder.
the fact I feel like I can understand some of this really is just an observation about how insane or just generally creative I am
3:02
_Meanwhile, in Florida..._
This is strangely beautiful.
Let it be known that all the commentators below saying that you need to be on drugs to be creative are saying more about themselves than people who actually do have original thoughts.
Oh stfu
@@dejaporter7338 no you
So annoying when people do that. Some people just can't imagine having an imagination
I love to see that book always
I really want a movie of this.
In this book U can discover the "Secret de Montagne Longue" and the use of Sang-Dragon by Antonio Stradivari
Amazing artwork & the music complimented each other, especially are taking 2 diazepam tablets, drifting into bliss ! Beautiful relaxation 🤤
The music is haunting
this is like earthbound as a book
This place looks like a fever dream
Amazing idea. And too short video!
this is pure raw nostalgia, of our imaginations, i think our imaginations before, are greater than now right ?
I love the book
I won’t ever forget this book
3:02 I think I can undertand that... so so
Superb
I think those images tells about ideas for battle, experiments that can create something extraordinary.. some are like spy gadgets, fire proof dress, diseases and it's cures.. and some fun gadgets like rainbow creations and tounge colorings.. I could not understand few but I felt this might be ideas to try.. try to make some stuff from this 😁
i have mentioned that we can try out some stuff and yes some are yet unexplained... but if u give little support to imagination its like skin that can be reused or repaired or maybe an anatomy class for kids to show the skin lols :P
i know my answer is not realistic lols
p sushie Most amazing things start out as being but a dream.
With this imagination, his teachers in school may have always gave him As in art class out of fear while the students outside the classroom freaked out at his paintings in the hallway.
3:00 haaa! corckondile leave bedding
Can I buy this on amazon or eBay if so? Or just a book store? Cause this is very interesting 🤔
Would totally buy it to get some ideas for my own fantasy world
you have a fantasy world too?
que grandiosa imaginación
Hello, which song is it from Basinski? It´s awesome
"El Camino Real"
+DistantMirrors Great uploads, keep it up :)
Great
The man in a business suit at 2:51 and the ice skates in 4:00 kinda makes me think this isn't other worldly.
4:00 I came in like a wrecking ball
This book weirdly speaks to me; I actually *get* it.
Maybe u high
YES.
Where?
Same, for some reason I can make up something true
the deer at 5:00 reminds me of the film Annihilation
My man must have been on one hell of a LSD trip
What edition of the book is this of?
If The Elder Scrolls made a masterpiece game, this would be the loading screen.
ssd skips loading screens xd
The art in the mathematics put into your equation Results in pier gratification I empathy you
Surreale remember me Dalí paintings
I would love to own this.
How high was this guy when did wrote this book?
Realize his normal hight and brain function in the Italien interview. According to Wikipedia the painting/writing of 360p lasted 30 months and the stati are difficult to specify without boring diagrams. My father is on this with NASA and I look like the person on page 241 in the original edition. Buy it. :-)
Ah yes, no surrealist work of art would be complete without somebody alleging the artist of the usage of drugs. A real classic. I remember people in school coming up to me, drawing weird doodles, also assuming I was doing drugs. No, in fact its just imagination.
2:30, that is the most sickest shit i have ever seen... makes my skin crawl.
try to check another one 8:00 lol
eNdLeS the people wearing the sack on their heads I call them mafians
Those creepy eyes made of fish will haunt my dreams. I know it.
1:40: when you forget to order boneless soup 😿😿😿😿😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
this book is bot meant to be read, it's meant to be imagined
I Studied this book for 2 years, strange and helps to make feelings floated outside the outrageous monumental Mind!
I really like it, but don't understand it. Could anyone please tell me something more about this? :)
Miss Martha Its made to "suffocate" your mind by exposing amazing pictures but not explaining it like what happens when we are a illiterate children reading a encyclopedia (sorry english is not my native language).
Can you please tell me what the song is in your video? I really want it sooo much
El Camino Real
Reminds me of the voynich book.. there's 1 very common letter iv seen repeated so far. Its like an upper case e but looks like a 3. Its everywhere. Very small alphabet. I think this is a concept of how we as humans are perceived thru the eyes of an extra terrestrial of some sort. They're tryna make sense of things here.. or something.. its awesome af tho trippy too
for some reason i find this more unsettling than horror art.
She loaded the book
I can cry music
interesting
these images are used to interpret illusions and dreams in relation to the psychological state. this work highlighted certain aspects of the mind - in relation to touchable physical experiences and what processes in your mind- Not brain.
Reminds me of Stefano Benni's "Stranalandia"
Dawm bro where do you get your weed?
Yessir.
What did I stumble into?
I can’t read but I understand from photo this book say that if we not control the environment or If we eat everything then one time all tree to tree and humans to humans all live thing it them self. This book say that thing they compare with other humans with animals and with tree . They explain to say us how happened everything in world like tree and animal and humans they say like that , this book say from being in earth and what happened when is finished earth
When you’re looking over the final exam for the book you didn’t study.
Backroom entities in a nutshell.
This is some Keith Thompson shizz. Look it up, he's one of the best artists.
How many pages of it is this?
0:38 on salvia I felt like I was being shifted weirdly in a sideways fashion. I couldn’t describe it in this language. I resolved to describe it as an electric piece of paper being folded inward diagonally. But the pic here is a sideways set eclipses with lines inwards and that’s exactly how it felt. Weird weird weird!
Analyzing the pic, I find the little person on the shoulder represents the consciousness and when that consciousness was altered for me by salvia, I couldn’t think on my own I forced words to come out and ppl thought I was answering questions but I was using force not any knowledge of language. As if my body could go on without it. But the pain of being folded inward diagonally or some sort of high voltage split wasn’t worth the “risk” I couldn’t see straight and my eyes felt like they were darting but my friends didn’t see that. It was like my consciousness was taken and that was what happened when it was taken. This book is on to something. I think it does follow experiences of a person on psychedelics
I'd like to hear more of these interpreted from you
1:49 oh my god, imagine if fishes were intelligent to ward off predators or people with the illusion of eyes staring at you to stay out of the sea!😱
Reminds me of Mark rydens works kinda.
I just remembered that the artist who made this book actually lives in Italy, right where the Covid-19 pandemic is raging, and he is like 70 years old.... damn, I hope he is doing ok
Damn
es un lenguage que combina muchas variantes , los mas sorprendente e ironico que ni el mismo autor sabe su significado , pero las imagenes hacen alusion a lo que se llama su inconciente y conciente al mismo tiempo , utiliza una variedad de lenguages , artisticos , arquitecnonicos , linguisticos, aritmeticos , gramaticales , utiliza el lenguaje colorimterico , matemetico , geometrico , artistico , temporal , etc , etc , etc, podemos observar el cerebro de leonardo da vinci , con el de picaso , y otros pensamientos y genios mas de la historia del ser humano , el significado de los dibujos puede estar en tiempos diferentes , pasado presente y futuro , y con un unico lenguaje que puede modificarse , quiere decir que una imagen puede significar lo mismo que la siguiente imagen , y asi susecivamente , la intencion de esto es mostrar que lo que para algunos es imposible para dios no hay imposibles que es conocedor de todo lo que existe y existira , podria decirse que es la representacion de una inteligencia superior manifestada , y que todo lo que existe radica en uno solo. tambien revela suceso actuales , pasados y futuros , intenciones , planes de personas ajenas a el , pero que de algun modo esta atrapado bajo estas caracteristiscas ya mencionadas , una imagen puede tener 2 o 3 o mas signicados no tiene un limite definido solo de aquel que lo a revelado . saludos espero les pueda ayudar a comprender en algo otra , la interpretacion exacta es para una sola persona . podria ser para el mismo o para alguien mas . o ambos o todos , ese es el lenguaje. la representacion y la comprension que traspasa dos o tres o varios pensamientos . pero su significado es diferente para cada uno.en pocas palabras la interpretacion de esto no radica en la liguistica , si no en la interpretacion de todo. asi se lee.
First they take the Dinglebop and smooth it out with a bunch of Shleem.
The Shleem is then repurposed for later batches.
They take the Dinglebop and push it through the Grumbo, where the Fleeb is rubbed against it.
It's important that the Fleeb is rubbed, because the Fleeb has all of the Fleeb Juice.
Then a Shlami shows up, and he rubs and spits on it.
They cut the Fleeb. There are several Hizzards in the way.
The Blamfs! Rub against the Chumbles, then the Plubus and Grumbo is shaved away, leaving a regular old Plumbus!
Whats the name of the music, anyone know.
el camino real
The other Dimension
just learned this book exists. But the illustrations are oddly familiar
0:59,i think that person tortured peoaple