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  "abstract": "The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) is traditionally studied as an undeciphered text. This paper proposes a functional hypothesis: the manuscript was designed as a hazing device (c. 1420-1430) for medical or scholarly initiates.\n\nWe argue that incomprehensibility was the intended function, not a failure of transmission. Structural analysis suggests deliberate resistance to interpretation, consistent with ritualized novice-testing in late medieval universities.\n\nAuthor: Diego Aguilar Laparra, MD, General Practitioner, UNACH Campus II, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico.",
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      "name": "Diego Aguilar Laparra"
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  "published": "2026-10-16",
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  "title": "The Voynich Manuscript as a Functional Hazing Device: A Use-Centered Hypothesis, c. 1420–1430",
  "title_text": "The Voynich Manuscript as a Functional Hazing Device: A Use-Centered Hypothesis, c. 1420–1430",
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