World’s most mysterious books

The Codex or Afinia

This book is a collection of thoughts and ideas from a person and the reason why most of the books on this list are mysterious is because we don't know who wrote them. But the Codex era funniness is different. We know exactly who wrote it, and we know exactly why. But it is a weird ass book. It's written in a language that doesn't exist. It's full of pictures of weird animals and plants seeming to show directions on how to do things that came right out of David Cronenberg's nightmares, you'll find a horror slash grub weird anatomical weapons and people having sex and turning into an alligator. Like you do. It's like reading a medieval manuscript from some alien world that's unusual and unique but familiar at the same time. And that's kind of the point. The author's

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name is Luigi serafina. He was an artist attacked an industrial designer who wrote the book really is an art project more than anything else. He said he wanted to create a sense of wonder in the reader to give them the feeling of a baby looking at a book for the first time. And even though it looks hundreds of years old, it was actually just written in 1980. You can buy a copy on Amazon yourself, I'll put a link down the description below. Just make sure you're sober when you read it. Things could go bad. 

The book of saga

JOHN D was a mathematician, scholar and advisor to Queen Elizabeth in 1500s, England. He was an interesting cat. He lived in a time right in the middle of the Renaissance when the world was kind of transitioning from a world of magic and superstition to one is scientific inquiry. And john D was a perfect embodiment of that he was a mathematician and astronomer but also was really into alchemy and the occult. His advancements in mathematics held English sailors and navigate the world. But he was also obsessed with communicating with angels. And he was also a major advocate for creating a National Library of England, which the Queen was not all that interested in. So he just built his own. And its height. Johnny's library had over 3000 books and some of which, let's just say, a little kooky. But there was one of these kooky books that he was especially fascinated by it was called the book of saga, or the all dariah is a 15th century Latin book on incantations, magic, astrology, demonology and the genealogies of angels. The book was written with some weird practices like reversing some words in the Hebrew Kabbalah tradition, but it's mostly translatable. Except for the final 36 pages, which are filled with tablets containing 36 rows and 36 columns containing over 46,000 Latin letters that are completely random. JOHN D was so convinced that this was the key to unlocking a holy language, that he worked with a medium to communicate to archangel uriel, and through the medium Uriel told him that the only person who could unlock this code was Archangel Michael, who I'm guessing was not available at the time, the angel also claimed the whoever deciphers the book would die two and a half years later. So there's that. But toward the end of his life, while john D was traveling through Europe, some vandals pilfered his library as if that wasn't bad enough, after Queen Elizabeth died, he fell into poverty and he had to sell the rest of it, scattering all of his books in the wind. The Book of soil went missing for 500 years before it turned up in 1994. In the British Library, ironically, the very library that he wanted to build and immediately cryptologist started working to try and crack this code. In 2006, a Princeton mathematician named Jim Reid's claims to have deciphered the tables using computer algorithms by discovering six letters seed word in each table that gives you the key to solving is linking an article in the description that explains how he translated it, as well as a translation that you can read yourself. If you're brave enough, Jim Reeves is still alive, so you'll you'll probably be okay. Probably, maybe 5050 go check it out. 

The story of the Vivian girls

 Nathan Lerner was a landlord in Chicago in 1971, when one of his oldest tenants went into hospice due to failing health. The man's name was Henry darger. He was a reckless the barely ever left his apartment except to go to church and they lived in that same place since 1930. As Nathan began the process of cleaning out this guy's apartment, what he found astonished. It was a massive collection of writings and made up one book titled The story of the Vivian girls and what is known as the realms of the Unreal in the Glen deco and Giulini and war storm caused by the child slave rebellion. It's 15,145 pages long spanning 15 volumes containing several 100 pages of illustrations, some of them landscapes as large as 30 feet wide. And he made the illustrations by cutting pictures out of magazines and tracing over them a style that many would actually pick up on after his death. It's an elaborate mythology that he wrote over 60 years that takes place on a planet that the Earth revolves around as a moon. And protagonists are seven Daughters of Robert Didion, princesses as a Christian nation of aviana, which lead a rebellion against a civilization built on child slavery. It's considered one of the longest books ever written, and he did it all in secret. Nobody knew anything about it until his death, Henry was thought to have a handful of mental conditions including Tourette's, and in fact, he spent some time in an insane asylum when he was young when she escaped in 1908. The entire book seems to have been spawned by his obsession with the murder of a five year old girl in 1911. In fact, darja wrote himself into the book as the protector of children. His work is now featured in museums all around the country, and there's actually a documentary about it called in the realms of the Unreal that's on YouTube, I'll put a link down in description. And of course,