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that did that? Did that? That? Themathematically did you? You're making
entertainment, right. I actually think we should put this on. Oh,
I think we should. Of course, we'd get a lot of hate.
Yeah, a lot good hate, because you know what, it's impugning our
constitutionally protected rights. If they're hating Satan. I'm not allowed to do that.
I ain't waiting. Yeah, Hi, everybody, Hello, I'm David
Flora. I am David Stacco. Welcome to the only podcast regularly is Running
with the Death. That's right. Oh, giving all praise to our dark
Master, the father of lives, the many handed one. Let's hear it,
were the soul shader, the heart blighter, the witherer of hope.
Wow, this this is good David Flora, Yep, he's been the devil
the whole time. Hey guys, we'll hold on. Would not be righted
behavior. Uh, this is blurry photos. We're in a good mood,
mostly because we've got a episode for you. Yeah, it's about time.
It's about time we just sucked it up, oh man, pooped it out
and into your ears. Yes, we are finally getting to another listeners suggestion.
That's pretty interesting, and um, I think you're think you'll like it,
even though we're not promising much like like we usually do. I like
that. I don't know. I I think it's going to be a fun
episode. Still, Uh, it's it's it's kind of This is more of
a sudden up and knock him down. However, this is the first episode
we've ever done about debblebabble, debblebabble. Don't don't read it. It's even
worse than the Municus debble babble. That is right, we are going to
be talking about the Codex Gigas is a Calldex gigas. I will not stop
making Nick's voice for the Hall eppisode. We're giving everybody ample opportunity to just
shut shut us down right now. Now you know what you think that,
But before you choose another podcast, I challenge you to sit through this one.
Yeah, because that's the mood I'm in, all right, before we
get into the episode proper, and we won't delay it too long. But
I do want to point out that we are finalists in the Podcast Awards.
Oh yeah, the Science and Medicine category. Yep, you know for all
the time times that we cover medicine, like five science episodes. So what
am I doing? This is what I'm talking about. You, Um,
we're not up against Neil deGrasse Tyson this time. Well that's because we've beat
his ass last time. But we are wrong, Internet. We are up
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their own way. Yeah, but I'm sure they're great. We're obviously the
uh, the better ones, and we're yeah, we're the best. We're
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last twenty four hours, but I've pulled it off. It's tougher to remember
to do than than you'd think. Yeah, but I don't want to be
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and then I get these really gentle texts from Flora like, hey, hey,
man, maybe maybe you should just stop trying for a little while today
because you're really Oh I say, I think I said try it from scratch.
Yeah, you might want to just invent this entirely because you're not gonna
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to be a finalist again. We are in it to win it second year
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know? Speaking of which, do we know if we're still on the Parsex
list? We are? We need to get our entry to them. So
we have been nominated, okay, but we won't know if we're finalists for
Parsex for a while. Do you know why it's worth it to make sure
that we're in there so that we don't win it? No, so that
we get to record our victory speech. It's so worth it. It is
maybe one of my favorite things we do every year, and we do it
every year. This will be our fifth time. No, fourth, fourth,
yeah, fourth, because because last year we were uh emblazoned into the
Bridesmaid Hall of Fame. Yep, three, three and out. So you
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We'll get to more stuff at the end of this episode. Mike, what
to do with Patreon and Audible and all that stuff? And oh, I'm
sorry, did someone become a champion of the miscrypted contest. I believe they
did, and I believe you'll get to hear who is crowned. Yes,
there is a coronation in our episode at the end of this episode, so
stick it out with us. Uh and in the meantime, you stick it
out and put it right back in. Okay, Okay, we have fun.
I'm gonna have a good time. I'm gonna learn some stuff about the
Codex gigas. Yes, Dave, Yes, let's let's get into this.
I'm going to luck at mind Shaw notes and to discuss Codex gigs. At
first I thought he was kidding. I'm one other last editorial note. Um,
I started moving out of the city of Chicago and into the city of
Iowa. Launch in this Taco rocket. Well people don't know yet, Yeah
they do. They don't know. Oh I'm moving away rocket launched. Yeah
uh yeah, I'm moving away, which will not affect the podcast. I
don't think much at all. Yeah. My fiance matched for her medical residency
in Iowa. So I'm moving to Iowa. I got a house there now.
I have not slept a lot in the last forty eight hours. That's
been a lot of driving and moving and heavy lifting. I didn't sleep a
lot the night before. I had Flora and his fiance over and a bunch
of friends because it was Mayfest in my neighborhood, so there was It's just
been crazy. So that's why I'm extra weird today. For the record,
Like, I can't stress this enough. Like Flora and I have actually worked
out a long time ago because as both of our our lives always have the
possibility of moving somewhere, and so we've we've done. As you guys have
noticed, we've done a couple of experiments with recording in different places. Yeah,
even when it was not our plan too, Like we did the live
chat last weekend. Yeah, that worked out great. Socrat, we have
the HP Lovecraft episode. We've got tons of stuff. I mean, you
might even have noticed in the uh last Miscrypted contest that a portion of that
was done via telephone. Yeah, we're kind of working the kinks out.
But do not think that this podcast is going to even miss a single episode,
right right, We've got it all worked out so uh And not to
mention, I kind of expect to be back in Chicago. I'm not moving
so far away that I can't be back at least once a month, you
know, like, we've got stuff to do, and so anyway we could
yeah, I mean, well we can get into some of that stuff in
at a later date. But yeah, if we got any listeners in Iowa
City, hit me up. I don't know anybody in that town that I'm
not going to be related too soon, So don't worry. Chicago podcasts go
up. We will still be broadcasting from the city of chicagoge everything will be
running through here. Don't change the address those checks get sent to. So
yeah, sorry, boy, you know, yeah, there you go.
Well you've told so many people you probably thought that exactly. I'm just so
used to it being a thing. But yeah, so that's why I'm extra
weird and so enjoy that. Let's will you enjoy that? Flora's let's talk
about I think you will. So. A few historical artifacts hold true mystery
and intrigue like a good book. Dave, don't bait me. It's hard
for a book to survive for a long time because you've gotten just general wear
and tear on it. You'll lend it to a friend you forget which one.
Yeah, there's fire, fire, which destroys it just about everything.
There's water, also destroys light people, silver fish, yeah, book lice.
But those that do survive tend to give us such insight into the world
as it was at the time of the book's creation, that it becomes paramount
to preserve the pages and keep that bit of history alive. But what if
preserving a certain book comes with a price. Oh what if the knowledge gained
by keeping an old manuscript around is equalled by the bad luck of a curse
it carries de book? Is it a dib book? Burned it? Burned
it? See, sometimes puns can't survive. Yea worse Yet, what if
the book is less a compendium of ideas and more a tool of the prince
of darkness? So like pornography? Such are the some claims held by the
Codex Gigas, a medieval manuscript famous for many reasons its size, its age,
it's construction, its contents, but most notably famous for one page holding
an illustration of the devil, the mini handed One, the Father of Lies,
Diabolis, the arch fiend, author of evil Beel's above, the Lord
of Flies, Prima Tintator, Belial, Lucifer, Mephistophelis, the Fallen One,
the King of hell Satan. Oh is that all you got? The
Unclean Master, the dream Blighter. As long as we've done this podcast,
I always try to list off no less than four names of the devil every
time. But you knocked a lot of them out. Well, we'll say,
we'll say it here and there. Yeah this, so keep them.
You got it, you got it. I also feel like there are a
lot of enemies in Diablo three that you could just replace. Ooh, that's
well, Belisle was in there already. So but like, what did you
say, dream Blighter? Yeah, that's what about Deckard Caine? I am
I not a villain of those cartoon movie games. Pokman Belaiah was the third
unholy fiend Devil's pantheon, please interrupt me? So okay, So this This
has led to several nicknames for the Codex, including the Codex Gigantius, which
is the Giant Codex Gigas Liborium, the book Giant Faun's Bible, the Devil's
Bible in Hollis Bible, Old Nick's Bible, No no, no, no
no no, that's the fons Biber so in house Biber, which is Old
Nick's Bible, and just spot Walking the black Book. Lots of lots of
nicknames for this old boy. I love it by way, oh oh do
old nick also old scratch yea. Pronunciations vary, you can you can say
gigas gigas, gigas guy gus. But we're gonna go with the Greek origin,
which uses the letter gamma for hard gez, pronouncing it gigas. It
translates to giant codex. Some call it giant book, but I think that
would be lieber gigas in that case, Yeah, it would be. It
was a name for support codex, being a manuscript of pages, especially of
classic work or scripture. The book itself is worth mentioning as a historical artifact.
However, it's the circumstances of some legends which surround it that weren'ts a
closer look by the By these guys, it's said to be written by a
single individual, which is crazy enough given its size and detail. But it's
the legend that this individual may have been the great unclean One himself, who
wrote it in one short night in exchange for a soul otherwise damned on this
mortal plane. We'll be taking a look at how it was made, why
it was made, by whom it was made, it's contents, and the
legends surrounding it. So the devil were set down at a typewriter and he
was looking for a book to steal. Yeah, he was in a bind,
and he was way behind because he had a deadline in the morning.
So he found an old pornographer and said, let me tell you a son
you don't want to burn in hell, get me easier soul as well,
and I'll start on chapter one. Let's start with Yeah, okay, first
and foremotion. All right here, you can go ahead and do what you're
gonna do. But do you know how many times you've mentioned how big this
book is. Don't worry everybody, I got you fam. Its origin is
unknown. We don't know where it came from, but according to a note
in it, the codex was pawned in the monastery at Sedlac in twelve ninety
five CE and has writings from historical figures dating back to the first century CE.
And this was in Bohemia, which is now the Czech Republic, specifically
Podlahizza, then Brevnov near Prague, So that's where whereabouts it's coming out of.
Yeah, straight straight out of Slavis Town. Yeah, well we'll get
back to that, Dave. Do you want to tell us how it looks?
And damn I do so much? Wow? All right, wrath tell
you is buck Uh. It is enclosed by thick wooden boards covered with a
todd which is a it's a kind of a means of preparing leather white skin.
Um. The covers are elaborately decorated and have pierced metal U corner pieces,
each containing two griffins and one centerpiece, each with a circular raised portion
of which the book would rest when it was closed, so it doesn't actually
yeah to anything, yeah, which is also awarding to you. The bat
cover has two additional pieces, again with a kind of the pierced raised element,
that allow the codex to be changed or attached, uh to like like
a pen at a bank. Yeah, like that, so you can't just
swipe this giant ass book. Um. The date of all this metalwork is
uncertain, but some of it probably dates to from before its current binding,
so it was it was rebound later. Yeah, it's been, which happened
all the time. Yeah. It's three feet tall, twenty inches wide,
and almost nine inches thick. All right, this is a book. Yes,
three feet tall. Yeah. Oh and by the way, almost two
wide. Don't forget to put something on there in case someone wants to swipe
it, right, throw it in their knapsack. Because it only weighs a
hundred and sixty five ging pounds or almost twelve stone. This actually, this
qualifies it as the biggest medieval Latin manuscript to have survived. It's the king
of them all. Wow, that'll rattle some dogs, right. This thing
contains three hundred and ten leaves of vellum, which were probably, as far
as they know, most likely made from the skin of one hundred and sixty
donkeys. I want to read all of this in the sexy voice. Made
from the skin of the one hundred and sixty donkeys. Oh, that's a
ton of livestock to flay, I mean, yeah, I'm sure they used
the whole buffalo. But that's a lot of dead donkeys. Yeah, yeah,
which is awesome. Yeah, there's not a lot of real estate on
a donkey that you can make a book out. Yeah, they made a
book out of that ass, as far as they know. If they think
that it originally could have been calfskin, they think it was donkeys. But
yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be hard to do the work on that,
but honestly, why, there's some things that you can find out,
but like, what is that going to illuminate? Apparently it originally had three
hundred and twenty sheets, but ten of them were too hot for this podcast
censored. I don't know either someone stole them or cut them out of the
book, But there are tenses. The texts were written on ruled guidelines,
which, um, is kind of interesting to me. Um, you know,
as far as illuminated manuscripts goes like it to me implies a less skilled
scribe, like the real pros didn't it don't need them anyway, neither here
nor there. So there's two columns of one hundred and six lines each on
each page, so you get two hundred and twelve lines per page. Yeah,
apparently the text size was kind of small. They were able to fit
in quite a few words in then, you know, with a three foot
tall book and small letters. About half the Codex consists of the entire Latin
Bible in the Vulgate version, except for the Books of Acts and Revelation,
which are from a pre Vulgate version. Dave, what is the Vulgate.
The Vulgate is the Latin Bible translated from Hebrew and Aramaic by Jerome between three
eighty two and four oh five Common Era. This text became known as the
Verso Vulgata, which means the common translation. So it's just a common Latin
translation of the battle. I didn't read that, I just knew it,
and I'm glad. Yeah, so you just spac Did I fit you up?
You? Spad also contains Hebrew, Greek, and Slavic alphabets, the
cyrillic and glog Aletic. The manuscript includes illuminations in red, blue, yellow,
green, and gold and purple horse shoes, which they said the pigments
for these came from crushed insects when I was in Ireland. Really say,
I'm saying, but I was in Ireland. That's how I started antartic of
stories. It works out great, everyone's impressed. I was at the Trinity
Library in Dublin. They had the Book of Kils on display, which is
another manuscript, you know, really elaborately done, very beautiful and stuff.
They had a whole section set up to show you how they came by the
different colors of ink. They had you know, and they it's interesting because
you get it from insects, you get it from plants, things like that.
Crush it up and yeah, mix it blah blah blah. But yeah,
they said the majority of this one was crushed in sex. I guess,
sweet, that's something I feel like I shouldn't one more about, and
I don't know anything about it. Insect dis Yeah. The Codex Gigis contains
five long texts, as well as a complete Bible. The manuscript begins with
the Old Testament. It's followed by two historical works by Flavius Josephus, who
lived in the first century CE and who we I believe we talked about him
in misscripted just a short thing. Yeah, he had a little He had
a little dip in there with so did Pliny the Elder with the Indian Estomy.
I think, right, was it that one Josephus. His works were
The Antiquities of the Jews and de Bello Utico, the Jewish War. I'd
like to call him Josephus because it sounds more fun, but anybuddy, but
that's not his name, so we can't. Maybe it is, I don't
know. After Josephus Josephus. After his works were the Encyclopedia of the Middle
Ages Etymologia by Isidore who lived in the sixth century in Spain, and that's
followed by a collection of medical works of Hippocrates, Theophilis, Philaritis, and
Constantinus, and these are followed by the New Testament. The last of the
long works is a chronicle of Bohemia by Cosmos from Prague who lived around the
end of the eleventh century CE. This is the first history of Bohemia and
it's pretty important to know what was going on around there at the time.
And then also in there you've got some some of the pages are a calendar,
there's some magical spells. It's really just town portal though. Yeah,
I mean it's it's good, but it's not like awesome. No chain lightning
and and a text on exorcisms. Yeah, it's interesting, Like part of
me thinks, oh, they just kind of are binding books altogether. But
it's so big. How many looks that size? Where they finding so or
did someone make one big gass book and then they're filling it or it just
seems like everything is kind of disparate and added over time. Boy, that
that is that's hard to suss out because well, I don't I don't want
to tip the fedora too soon, Mi lady. Um, Well, you
know there's no point because you know, girls you just don't like guys who
are nice. I think that the I think all the works had been done
by the time this was made. Yeah, and well you'll see why.
Towards the end, you'll see why it is. But you'll see why.
It does seem like they just kept adding on to it. And you know,
some people kind of think that it was picked up and added to and
there are some some parts in here that well it almost see evidence of some
of that. Yeah, I mean it almost has to be, given the
scope of what you know, chronologically covers. You know, I'm not saying
everything had to be written when it happened, but right, right anyway,
moving on, Uh. Yeah, the decoration on the codex comprises two full
page pictures, two marginal pictures, and fifty seven decorated initials everyone knows,
you know, like the the glorious tea of an illuminated manuscript. Yeah,
manuscript, that's that is the word, the huge swirly eye for the word
in right, Yeah, it's a page sized eye exactly in the beginning there
are two full page pictures representing the Heavenly City, and on the opposite page
dear book picture the Devil. The devil, and that picture is the number
one reason why the book is known is as well known as it is.
The picture is twenty inches tall, with a yellow gold body, green face,
not one but two red tongues maybe of fire coming out of the corners
of his mouth, two red horns, and four fingers and four toes on
each hand and foot ending in long red claws. He's he's also, for
your edification, covered himself in some sort of spotted diaper type thing um and
um kind of looks like heartboxes. It's adorable, like the little white boxers
with little bred hearts on them. Man, that's what I thought of when
I saw His portrayal was sinister enough to those back in medieval Europe that as
the years went by, people started noticing that the pages leading up to it
are somewhat blackened. Uh. Like you said, everything else in this book
was very clean, and that the pages were discolored around the image of the
devil, which we will come back to a little bit later. So not
only was this book extraordinarily well preserved, but one of the most intriguing things
about it is that the contents of it not so much. You know,
we just talked about how disparate some of the things are, but the manner
in which they were written is very uniform. Then the style that the nature
of the writing is uniform throughout, and so it almost shows that it was
done overnight. No um, but there is not a there aren't any telltale
signs of exactly something happening too. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't have
to switch scribes. There's no evidence that the scribe was getting older and his
penmanship was getting worse or anything like that. It is. It is remarkably
uniform throughout. So that's that's worth noting. Old timing Printer. Yeah,
let's talk about some some of the history of its legends, some of the
legends, some of the legends. As mentioned, the first evidence of its
origin was a pawning at Sedlec in twelve ninety five. Writings and information recorded
in the codex seemed to end in the year twelve twenty nine. So the
stuff that was written there people have dated back up until twelve twenty nine that's
the last it's like the last recent thing. Yeah. From fourteen seventy seven
to fifteen ninety three, it was kept in the library of a monastery in
Brumov until it was taken to Prague in fifteen ninety four to form a part
of the collections of the Emperor Rudolph the Second. Now this hip cat will
be rearing his ugly ass head later on in the season, I'm sure,
And we've already kind of I think touched on him here and there. I
think we mentioned him in count of Saint Germain. You'd have to, you're
the boss there. I don't, but I trust your judgment on that.
He is a pretty interesting node, a kind of connector point for a lot
of cool stuff that's going on that we actually have started touching on. I
don't like touching on it, so we should do. Oh yeah, you
should do. Honey? Is is makes such nice honey. At the end
of the Thirty Years War in sixteen forty eight, his entire collection was taken
as spoils of war by the Swedish Army. It then entered the collection of
Queen Christina of Sweden and put into the Royal Library in the Castle at Stockholm.
In May sixteen ninety seven, a fire broke out at the castle and
the Royal Library suffered very badly, as libraries often do in fires. They
are suffering libraries. The codex was rescued from the flames by being thrown out
of a window, and it apparently injured a bystander, and some of its
leaves fluttered away, still missing to this day. Oh there they are.
In September two thousand and seven it returned to Prague on loan from Sweden.
When were we wondering where they were before? It's one of those things where
people shut a door and keep on walking through the room, I guess to
September two thousand and seven. Returned to Prague from Sweden until January two thousand
and eight, and was on display at the Czech National Library. The uniformity
of calligraphy at illustrations, along with the picture of the Master of Demons,
has led to some legends about its creation. Truly, it seems as if
the book were written in a short amount of time by a very skilled hand,
perhaps the mini handed one. The most popular story attributing this craftsmanship concerns
a lone Benedictine monk from the Middle Ages. This monk apparently committed a grievous
infraction against his monastery and was sentenced to be walled up alive within the monastery
indefinitely. In his desperation to avoid such a fate, it said, he
offered to pin in one night a huge religious text, the likes of which
the world had never seen. It was agreed that if the monk could accomplish
this task in one night, then he would be freed. Not long after
beginning the task, realized the futility of it, so he prayed for help.
However, he prayed not to God, the Father, or the Man
Jesus, but to old Scratch himself. Ah, Yes, to him complete
this monumental and impossible feat describe Tainter. Yeah. The scribe Tainter himself appeared
and agreed to complete the book for the monk if the monk would promise his
soul to him. Sorry. The monk agreed, and the great filth Magistrate
himself completed the book in thanks. The monk included a large illustration of the
adversary and was done in time to be set free, but lost his peace
of mind until he finally turned to the Holy Virgin be seeching her to save
him. She agreed to help, but the penitent died on the very point
of being absolved from his dark pact with the unholy abyssal Legate Dave, if
you want to pick it up and and also add your your other names for
the devil, so many names for the devil, none of them have such
formalized jobs as you. It was through It's it's a long and history that
the legends of the curse started to show up. Um. You know obviously
the fifteenth century the monaster was held destroyed. Uh he would. I'm sure
it would be safe if we put it in a royal library. Right it
wasn't burned. Well, don't worry, guys, I'll chuck it out of
a window. I'm sure something will break its fall. Oh an innocent bystander,
damn it. No matter where that unlucky. No matter where you land,
the thing is off you want. It's true. It's like Finland's next
door. Uh. There's a Swedish book that was published in eighteen fifty eight
told a story of a porter who was locked inside the library's main reading room
after falling asleep. Also the basis for the Never Ending Story um. Upon
awakening, he had a vision of the books moving of their own accords from
the shelves and hovering about in a whirling dance. A large clock, normally
out of order began striking the hours. Books surrounding the Devil's Bible began falling
all over in all directions. Then the giant book itself joined in the dance.
The following morning, the porch, literally terrified out of his wits by
dancing books. Oh yeah, what a time to be alive, was found
underneath the table. These are people who died from just like scraping their knee.
Armies invaded and people were slaughtered, and public executions and stocks and burnings
of witches. And this guy, scared of dancing books, papercuts. Dude,
literally terrified out of his wits, was found underneath the table, and
from that time forth he was and remained insane and had to be taken to
the madhouse. It was said that sadness and tragedy will haunt the footsteps of
anyone who possesses the codex. It said that one of the previous owners a
monastery was struck with one of the worst episodes of bubonic plague, and record
after taking possession of the Devil's Bible. The current library in Sweden seems immune
to the curse so far. Oh no way, Sorry guys, din'd you
love how much? We said? It? Said? Yeah? I know,
you know, yeah, we'll see. How about this? The ten
missing pages also a mystery, are they? I mean it fell out of
a book in the window. True, and as no one quote knows where
they're gone. While there's no definite explanation for this, there was. It's
believed that during the years, some of the pages were removed because they contained
information that could be dangerous for the common man to know. Of of course,
the recipe for chicken in a bucket led into gold and all the entrances
to the underground reptilian monotomic gold mines. Others have speculated the pages were stolen,
or some one long ago deemed the information contained in the missing pages to
be offensive to the customs and thoughts of the day. Well, okay,
well, I want to go through this one funzy style first of all,
style on the back of a motorcycle shop. Okay, So first and foremost
it was they said the book was chucked out of a window, and some
lost pages and lost pages. Okay, so one and done there. Let's
just ignore that part. Some of the pages were cut out because they were
offensive to the sensibilities of the day. Oh no, no, keep the
giant picture of the devil. Leave it in. And also it was super
I mean even now at the auction house, you know, I sell,
I don't personally sell, but my outmart where I work, we auction off
eliminated manuscript pages all the time. They're yeah, people cut those things to
ribbons all the time because you want to make money. You take a book
with one hundred pages in it, you buy it for fifty bucks, and
you sell each page for a dollar. You just doubled your money. People
did it all the time. It's why it's one of the reasons why complete
volumes are so valuable now, because it was such a common practice. It
doesn't it doesn't have to be dark, unknown knowledge. It just had to
be a pretty page. Maybe you were friends with a guy named Indiana and
the eye was really well illustrated on that page and the word in here you
go Indie, and he's like, actually this belongs to a museum. Also,
the dog's name is Indie. You would man after the dog. I
love your selah. Yeah, so yeah, you know, I feel like
they had a really good reason, but like it doesn't like, oh,
this was too diabolical for you to see. Yeah, they would have cut
the devil out of that thing in a heartbeat. Some some people think the
monastic rules of the Benedicts were in there too. Did they have to keep
those secret from everybody? Is a part of the delio with him. I
don't think they are. I don't know for sure, but it's like even
even groups that have secret rules, they got out all the time, like
the Freemasons, tons of secret rules. That's that. That was always like
a quote unquote closely guarded secret. You could get it, you know.
Yeah, well, let's let's continue on the explanation train. Yeah, next
stop. The author m dud dude choga choka. Hey, you know what,
the book most likely was written by one man. There's good evidence for
that, given the inc and calligraphy. It seems that one individual is responsible
for all of it. So who was it is me? It was the
staved Gieca's Chieca, it's me. We don't know. It's been put forth
that he was the monk Herman whose name with the cognomen inclusus orrs Monicus Inclusis
showed up on a necrology in a note which is which is just the opposite
of a birth announcement. I mean it's um, you know these people,
you know, when when did this guy die? Boom there it is right,
so yeah, so he shows up on a necrology. The epithet inclusis
was linked with the legend of the walled up sinful monk, having scribed the
Codex Gigus in its entirety during one single night with the assistance of the foul
master of librarians. Librarians inherently you're getting that latta a jab jab yeah.
But but the term inclusis or reclusis really denotes a recluse i e. A
person most mostly affiliated to a monastery, living in isolation in a sale for
religious or ascetic reasons, or more rarely ailes reclusa, also known as the
brown recluse fighter as as a know your enemies as your self floor form of
penitence. After a trial period of at least one year, they could be
locked in a cell by a bishop who would affix his seal to the cell
door, and sometimes these sell would be walled up and a rick wi a
mass sung for the reclusis, symbolizing a funeral. This way of life was
not uncommon among Benedictines and Cistercians. That sounds like awful, a little weird,
a little weird. I mean, well, you know what, there
was that whole thing that Jesus said was like, hey, if you love
me, seal yourself up in a room, yeah, and have your friends
sing death masses. Right. The designation reclusis is not uncommon in medieval acrologies,
Sobislas has also been a year welcome. It's also been suggested as the
name of the scribe. This name occurs in a prayer to the Virgin Mary
added in the margin on one page. Just scribbled it in there, like
inheriting a middle school text. Right, yeah, it just said S plus
VM or ever. But this prayer is in a different hand from the rest
of the man script, which added later in the thirteenth century. Exactly.
I mean, this guy's not going to go through all that work and then
be like, oh yeah, and don't forget me. Yeah never, by
the way, love vit Mary, Dave. How about how how about the
question of whether or not it was done in one night. Man, think
anyone who has ever had to write a paper overnight. Actually I wouldn't use
that excuse. Oh I would be on my college days. That's that's all
that happened, right, And how was how long was the longest paper you
ever did? That? Way? Ten pages? Okay, so this is
I only did as much as I was told to, right, But that
well, that's my point though, Like this thing is two hundred and twelve
column, two hundred and twelve lines per page, three hundred and ten pages
done in hand. So let's just ignore source, Like where he's sourcing them.
Here is how he's deciding what's going to go in in what order,
in addition to the illuminations on the page, each of which can take hours.
I mean, there's just nope, no, Well, they've they've done
tests and recreations to show how long it takes to make an illustrated manuscript.
Oh yeah, you make one mistake on a page, Now you've got to
scrape that whole vellum clean and start over. Although it's it's difficult to estimate
how long it took, they have kind of mathed it out to say one
scribe could have written one column in the codex one hundred and six lines in
a day. If they worked for six hours a day and wrote six days
a week, then they could have completed it in about five years. But
if he was a monk, he had other duties, right, and he
may have only been able to work for about three hours a day on it,
and that means would have taken ten years to write. As a scribe
may also have ruled the lines to guide the writing before he began to write
it, which you know, took several hours just to rule it out and
get it all. Even that extends the period it took to complete it.
Then you have the decoration on there, the illustrations, all that, and
then you're getting up to about twenty years, maybe even thirty before you can
finish something like this. Yeah, and like you said, make a mistake,
scrape at start over again. And I would say, you know,
if you're sitting down to a project that big, I don't kill yourself,
give yourself, I don't think. I mean, first of all, if
he was sequestered, maybe they'd give him, you know, more time to
do it right. You know, maybe he would work more than six hours
a day, maybe ten or twelve a day without going crazy, who knows,
or maybe he was already crazy. That's so he's able to do it.
But like things like lining the pages. If all the pages are uniform
and you know that you're going to do this hundreds of times, Um,
it's not uncommon from them to make like a wooden jig, you know,
you place it over the page, you know, so you don't you're not
doing the right the calculations because you'll always make mistakes that way. But if
you just have a uniform thing, there's a lot of things that would cut
that down. But like like you said, oh oh, everything went great
and he did it super fast. So he only did it in twenty years,
right, three years. That's still three years of all day, every
day writing and never making mistakes. Yeh woof, yeah you know he made
mistakes. Yeah you don't. That's why God made a race is Oh no,
wait, he hadn't yet. That's that is why librarians are on the
devil side. How about those blackened pages around the devil? How about the
fact that it's the one picture in the whole damn book, so that's what
everyone flips too. It's just a simple question to traffic with that many hands,
dirty, little grubby hands, one that tasted a devil. Well,
maybe they will see the City of Heaven. Who knows it's the devil.
It's the devil, human night, it is the devil, the light getting
in, the exposure that it's getting, the sea bum that's getting on there.
Hate that word, I hate it. Yeah, that's all boom.
The speaking of those two pictures too. Was it a an homage to the
Admiral of the Lake of Fire Navy. I think it's the rear rear admiral
or Admiral of the the of the Wedgie Patrol, just because wedgies for people.
I think, is that just dedicated to him? No? I think
that it was. Um. I mean, if it was dedicated the devil,
why include the entire Bible? Why do the City of Heaven? Right?
Exactly? I think it's it's the it's the other half of a diptych.
It's it's a it's a two part singular work. Like here's the one
side, here's the other City of Heaven. Devil balls in a in a
in a diaper, devil diaper. Gotta have it all balance it out.
It's contrast. It's made to show the little salty yep. So in the
end, it's it's a pretty marvelous book. It is impressive as hell,
and there's you can go on Netflix. There is, um I haven't looked,
but I know that I watched a documentary about this years ago. So
I don't know if it's still on there, but there are. I'm sure
it's on YouTube. There are great documentaries about this point. Yeah, I
believe National Geographic did one. I didn't watch that. I think that may
be the one that I saw. Yeah, I think there may have even
been a movie made called The Devil's Bible. Didn't watch that, didn't didn't
see it. So you've seen that, let us know. How what do
you think of it? But it's completely fantastic and good on the human that
did it. But yeah, it does not mean it's supernatural. Nope,
it's just impressed. I mean it honestly. The only thing to my mind
that makes it supernatural is that it is as big as it is and it's
survived as long as it has. It is supernatural. Really lucky as f
right, and these guys have put f in there, don't swears as far
as a curse with it. Again, Like I really scraped the barrel to
try and find the examples that we had. Well, here's the thing if
okay, most of that was like it's said that this happens. You know,
you've got a book that is let's take the average one thousand years old.
Let's say it's somewhere in there. Every person who ever had that book
is dead. Yeah. A lot of those people are going to statistically die,
not of natural causes. I mean, it's you can manufacture a curse
for anything that has been passed around. Um yeah, there's going to be
fires and people dying. And a guy had picked the book up and then
just a week later he fell down some stairs and died. You know,
like you that's just history, that's just statistics. There's no Yeah, yeah,
we I think we touched on stuff like that and the Curse of the
Pharaoh's episode. Yeah did all those guys were adventurers living at the edge.
Yeah, good on them. So there you go. That's it. That's
that's what we got for the Old Codex. Gigas in a town, the
skinned the skin of one hundred and sixty jackasses, covering with with metal cornered
Nutshell, yeah, I like that. Um, you know there was another
appendix to that book made of a real appendix and made out of made of
a real appendix. Um, it was actually underneath the metal back plate.
It turns out, I thought that plate. You thought that plate was to
keep it from being taken. No, it was just the other way.
It was meant to hold something in. Oh yeah, because underneath that back
plate was sixteen hundreds era. It just say punds just stopped talking and say,
pods, that's what I did. Or how about you go first?
Do you want me to Well, here's something I think you'll like. There's
a great transportation service implemented in Texas nowadays that helps folks who don't have a
lot of money travel across the strip the state. Oh it doesn't cost a
dime, but it sure takes its sweet time, and many people think of
it as socialism thought up by the devil. What But if you have to
get somewhere in the lone star state you don't have any money and don't think
it's a tool of the devil, and you don't mind how long it takes,
you can hop on board the slow text free bus. Holy that was
pretty good, Slow tex Yeah you got there. You front loaded it.
You know. There was a recent art show in Berlin that was an artist
who's very famous, and it was just pictures of giant books and an alien
books. And then sometimes the books have like vaginas on them visians, yeah,
like skulls, Like there's like a big death sexuality, foreignness to it
all, and the artist is hr gigis yeah, I smell yeah, yeah,
I took that punt and honestly I did it. I did it to
save all of you the time to write that punt and centered all right,
all right, there's a swell guy. He keeps to himself and doesn't go
out much, but it's okay because he's got friends, like a genie,
a pterodactyl in a chair. It is Peyrey Herbin, the Reclus. Wow,
that was awesome. That was really awesome. Recent scientists have actually done
some extra work on the codex um, you know, using scanning electron microscopes
and and even looking at the structure of the pages themselves, and it turns
out that it isn't vellum of any form at all. It's actually a hyper
dense energy matrix. It is. It's it's almost like a energy made solid
and if they could just find a way to release it, it they theorize,
because god knows what would happen, it would be a huge amount of
energy. It might even be enough energy to travel through time, because they
estimate that there's at least one point twenty one gigawatts in there. Nice,
you know, I ran across that. I was looking up how to pronounce
three in the paint. No, no, I'm this is me talking.
I was looking at how to pronounce gigas, And in some conversation that was
on some forums, someone was like, oh, that was that was one
thing that Doc Brown said, weirdly, was one point twenty one jigawatts.
And it's like, if you're not going with the geek and you're going with
like where it eventually got to, which is giant or gigantic, then gigas
or jagas you know, makes sense. But if you're going with the old
gamma, yeah, gamma gamma, then it's gigas. But yeah, it
is true that he said jiggawats and should have been gigawatts a gigabyte, right,
Yeah, that's weird. So well, MS pumps, that's a good
harmony on that one. Sure it was, So I tell myself. Oh
god, wait, Flora, wait what some some bunch of Randy old assholes
got a hold of it and started writing notes in the margins. Oh yeah,
looks like a whole bunch of listener man. I just call you,
guys, Randy old asoles. I told you from the beginning. Oh,
I need to sleep so badly. All right, I think I think you'll
like this one. We've heard from Pastor Tony, whoa just in time.
Pastor Tony says, I've been listening to the show for a while, thought
he'd wright in. Oh. I think he meant collecting evidence. I'm Baptist
preacher in Indiana and love all the weird stuff you guys. Can I also
appreciate how you challenge organized religion with some of your topics. It makes me
look deeper into my faith and think about why I believe. I also share
Stecco's disdain for certain conservative Christian groups and think they really give Christians a bad
name. But thanks again for the podcast, keep up the good work.
Thank you, and a good suggestion. Thank you, Pastor Tony. I'm
glad that's awesome. Yeah listening, I'm glad. I'm glad we can offer
some insight into that sort of stuff. That's why we do it. Always
makes me feel better to feel like we're not just shutting on things all the
time, right Yeah, because we don't want to shot. I don't want
to end up doing it, right Well, it makes me feel bad if
I don't know anyway. Yeah, thanks Pastor. Here's a pretty honest one
that I completely agree with. This is from Spooky Dookie. Love it.
Hey there, Pooky. Spooky Dookie writes, Yo, how the heck y'all
going to talk about an awesome dollar store skeleton with maggots but never post a
picture? Skeletons are my favorite, and I'm so disappointed. Solid point,
Solid point, Well, we tried to remedy that a little while ago,
did we. Yeah? Yeah, I put a picture of it on Facebook.
I got it on Twitter. Okay, you've got access to those,
yes, go go go nuts. Yeah, you're a hero. Thanks Spooky
Dookie. Dave heard from General Hammerfass Thundercock. Holy shit, I salute you.
General been trying to make his way through the back catalog. He doesn't
try to make his way through anything. He cuts a path of destruction.
I thought I would tell you guys about a TV show I remembered from the
nineties. In nineteen ninety six, the WB tried to reach out to the
untapped Jewish tween demographic. After this success of shows like Goosebumps, they began
recording Are You Afraid of the Dibbuck noice? No, thanks General, thank
you? Oh I got a fun follow up here from Goblin Brook rights,
Hey, guys, thank you so much for using my show suggestion on Goblins
Welcome, because Brook really can like included a lot of information. It was
awesome, She writes, really enjoyed the episode and thought it was super duper
rad and I actually have another show suggestion on something you guys haven't done a
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like that? Huh? Well played? Brook? Thank you? Yeah,
you know what what we we I feel like that's what the five dollars level
on patreons for, Like we'll probably hit a zarostrian Oh yeah, there,
I wish something. You guys are glad you didn't see that hand gesture.
It was it was so bad, so bad everybody it was. It matched
the sound perfect. Yeah, you know, like, like we said,
might be kind of boring for a regular episode, so why not pay for
one? We'll figure it out. Yeah, Dave, we've heard from Irmager
Pigler Dirg Perglar Dirg. I've been a listener for a little while, for
a little over here now, and I've been through the archives and new episodes
several times over and also recruited her fiance to the Blue Reaver ranks. Yes,
thank you, she says. She prowls the subs of Imgur and now
on the lookout for anything crypto related. You know what that reminds me the
last time I saw one of those silly here here are the podcast you should
be listening to posts make it to the front page, which is always the
same list. It's like the top ten of every podcast list that's out there.
Although I am really happy because you know what I'm starting to see on
those lists is our friends from the Chicago podcast Cooperative, Hello from the Magic
Tavern. I'm starting to see those guys show up on there. Yeah,
these lists, it's like they take the number one podcast in each category and
just put it on there. I don't think there's any thought to it at
all. But the point of me bringing this up is that way down in
the ranks, of the comments, someone said blurry photos. Oh I saw
that. Yeah, I was. I was really proud of that. We
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Yeah, by all means, out of there and injured. I feel
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Well, that's what injured does. It just loves her. He'll love
it and then hate. It's a lover hater anyway. Sorry, we couldn't
make it up for the live show. Got to save up for their wedding.
I understand that. Yeah, absolutely, that is an important expense,
and says we should seriously consider doing a show around KC Kansas City, Missouri,
Okay. Kappa and Dulahan, spine Whips and on bunyips couldn't keep us
away. Ps. We watched Ghost Adventures from time to time and Zach Baggins
has a new show called Possessions. The first episode featured the dipock box.
Oh, I want to check it out if you're brave enough. Flora,
what Yeah, I've crossed that bridge, Laura, and she says I found
my lack of puns disturbing, so I'll be sure to have something next time.
Yeah. Thanks for the funnies and funnies later, dudes, thank you.
I thanks. Purglinder. Got one last one here from Wow kurb Blurkin.
He's kurb Blurkin. I mean, okay, even saying it without the
voice kurb Blurkin, I'm still saying it, kurb Blurkin rites. Hey guys,
Hey, totally love the show. Listen to every episode. I thought
you might like to know about this project on Kickstarter called Ghost Theory claims to
be a first person paranormal investigation game based on real locations, events, and
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might be interested. That's awesome cool. I've just loved the name. Kurb
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It's a big bucket. Jimmy bucket gets bigger all the time. Yep.
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Um So Dave, are you ready to find out? God? I would
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Yeah? Back to record, I'm ready, okay. Our finalists this
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sure it's not the ham trammic ham slammer. You're right. Well, a
lot of people wrote that in But so, Dave, what what is your
prediction? What do you think on this one? I think that it is
going to be the uh. I think it's I keep wanting to say snelly
Gaster. I don't think it's gonna be Alman. I don't think it's gonna
be the almond any particular reason marketing. I think the least fun of all
of them. Yeah, I think it's the puck ug. I think it's
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futures. Woul we go one of them pudgies. So is it? H
is that your give us your your trifecta? There Pudgy then snelly Gaster than
Almon? All right, it's selling the almond short that's like my thing.
He's all like your torture doing me, but you don't know. All right,
Time to crown a champion miss ripped over Skype. We can't speak simultaneously,
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Yay? What was the runner up? Actually? You had the trifecta?
Who the big choc? All right? And now yes, now who amongst
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now the winner of the twenty sixteen Miscrypted Contest, Flora toss that salad?
All right? Really get in there? Oh yeah, get it all.
I've been I've been mixing since we've been talking. Yeah, you hear them
all in there? Yeah? All right? Hey, listener, did you
see what I did? There? Nothing? Nothing I heard that. I
heard your your your dirty mouth reference. Here we go the winner of the
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Next week Games of Chance Taxonomy. Uh. They get a their very own
prize pack and replica Golden Goatman Trophy. Yea, the winner is oh boy,
so many strips of paper with names on them, hundreds of them,
hundred and hundreds and hundreds. Matt, Matt. The winner is Matt.
I don't I don't have a last name. Obviously. I didn't ask for
a last name because you know, but I don't have a last name in
the email either. If your name is Matt, then you may have won.
That's right. So, Matt, if you are a Mat and you
voted this year, expect an email from us. Yep, we're getting email.
Will confirm it now it has happened before that we send the winner's email,
and it is not confirmed that that person disappears or does not answer,
in which case we shall select another. Did that happen? It came close
to happening. I think close enough to say it. Yeah, Well,
I didn't think you were going to call me up. Bro. All right,
we'll we'll keep these names and we'll draw a runner up if necessary.
Yep. But I'm gonna email Matt's probably later on the day this episode airs,
and and Matt, I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a
solid week to confirm. Uh. And if I don't hear back within a
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big hypocrite if I. If I did something like that, that would be
awesome. Also, if it turned up that you were rich the whole time,
that was a good rich laugh. Also, just a quick note,
Dave and I are doing this dirty and on the fly U when we when
Dave moves, he's gonna have his own studio set up, so he's actually
going to have the same audio quality. Yeah, it won't do any different
one. I'm gone. We're just doing this quick and dirty style. So
how we heard you like it from your mom? Oh? Yeah, like
it? All right, back to back to the normal goodbyes of this episode.
Yeah, congratulations everybody, thank you for a great twenty sixteen, Miss
Crypton content and congratulations Mac congratulations, Mad congratulations, Puckwuage. Oh yeah,
that wraps us up. What what a what a month? What a month?
We indeed we ended that month. We're beginning this one. What a
month? Yeah we are. We are busy, busy little beavers building up
a great big damn of podcast glory. Damn it. That's all I got.
Yeah for this episode of Blurry Photos, I have been David the Cathanian
Comptroller Flora, Oh, and I am Dave the modern portrait of Satan Stecco.
It looks like the Royal Swedish libraries on the choir. Wasn't happened to
de Bergs? Hey watch it? That's noise and burgin. Bye