Herman The Recluse: Czech Republic Icon, Religion (The Devil's Bible Writer)

We hear about this figure when watching the YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb0djS7abKM. He is then told to have been a Benedictian Monk who had been condemned to be bricked alive and starved to death (is this really something that can be told in books and not lead to the end of the Catholic Church, I wonder), yet nobody is able to tell what sin he committed, not even that. This man would then have proposed a deal to the abbot of the monastery: that he gave him one day for him to write a book containing all knowledge available in human kind in exchange for saving his life. Unable to write everything in time, he appeals to the devil and the devil then helps him write the Codex Gigas, a 75 Kg tome. The problems with this are several: Wikipedia has a different report and says that the deal was 1 year instead of 1 day and that is way more reasonable and a person could definitely have the time to write this tome in one year. All the knowledge of human kind resumed to only a few areas of knowledge, as we see mentioned in the own video, so that it was, by no means, all knowledge available. Besides, the contents of the book are clearly plagiarism, as we can read from Co-pilot: "The "Devil's Bible," also known as the Codex Gigas, is a large medieval manuscript created around the early 13th century. It contains a variety of texts, including:

The Complete Latin Bible: Both the Old and New Testaments in the Vulgate version.

Works of Flavius Josephus: "Antiquities of the Jews" and "The Jewish War".

Isidore of Seville's Encyclopedia: "Etymologiae".

Chronicle of Cosmas of Prague: "Chronica Boemorum".

Medical Texts: An early version of the "Ars medicinae" compilation of treatises, and two books by Constantine the African.

Other Texts: Various shorter texts on topics such as penitence and exorcism.

The Codex Gigas is also famous for its full-page portrait of the Devil, which is where it gets its nickname. Despite its ominous name, the manuscript is a remarkable piece of medieval literature and art."

The portrait of the devil is absolutely ridiculous, like a cartoon sort of thing.

I am sure, after examining the information available to us, that this book was no miracle, was written in one year (consisted of simply copying the work of others!), and does not contain the full knowledge of human kind from that time, like there are many things that were known at that time that are not present, such as Engineering and Architeture.

In this case, the monk got revolted with his monastery and called the abbot devil, since he had a deal with him instead. There is nothing that he has written in the devil's bible that implies he got it through a deal with the devil and he was a benedictian monk, so that this is like 99.9% unlikely. To become this type of monkey, according to Co-pilot, he would have studied at least 5 full years the liturgy of the Catholic Church, which means heaviest brainwashing as possible against the devil. It is realistically impossible that this man would have said he got the book through the devil or any agreement with it. Saying that is again satanism: that is a satanic narrative of the life of this man, for God's sake. We don't say such a thing about people unless we are absolutely sure, specially about people who are supposed to be those who least sin on earth. No, please, let's fix this one more biography. The video further states that it was weird that the book was written on vellum, which is animal skin. Yet, I asked Co-pilot and it told me that that was common practice back then, so that there is nothing special about that either. The video then says that the book would take a normal person 20 to 30 years to write, yet, in the same way we have reports on it taking 1 day, we have reports on it taking 1 year, so that we may as well say anyone could have said 20 years and it would be all the same, quite sincerely, like we don't have anything proving that the book started being written at a certain date and had its last page written at another, so that it is all guesses. The presenter states that if Herman had taken 30 years to write the book then the book would present change of calygraphy style somewhere but it doesn't. Co-pilot helps with this one: "(I asked if there is any book written by human hands during a period of more than ten years that presented no change in size or shape of letter) One example is the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament. It was created around 800 AD and is known for its intricate and consistent calligraphy, although it was likely produced by multiple scribes over several years." Basically, we get to know that the writing was 'the same' even though the scribes were different, so that there the argument is stopped. The presenter also talks about ermine loincloth having been used to cover the genitalia of Herman's drawing of the devil as being something special, as if he revered the devil since the royals were told to dress in such fabric. Well, I consulted Co-pilot and found out that the ecclesiastic garnments were made of those when the priests had highest ranks. In this case, he was probably calling the abbot a devil if the fabric of the nappies of the devil are supposed to mean something. I observe however that my first impression was that of a ridiculous figure, so that I see absolutely no respect for the devil whatsoever and, if for the presenter, that looks like a royal attire, to me it looks like nappies, calling the devil a retarded person, which I do think is adequate, a person who did not grow up. The presenter also talks about 10 missing pages of the book possibly containing he devil's prayer and, because of that, having been removed: Mary Madaglene's book had 9 pages missing and nobody ever said that about hers. Mark's gospel is missing entirely and again nothing like that was invented, so that there is no reason for such a belief. As a last point, though, worth adding, his book has nothing to praise the devil or his creations or rhetoric, so that we should definitely change its name, from devil's bible to Herman's Book or something. May God bless!