The Voynich Ninja

(03-02-2025, 08:28 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Somehow it seems strange to me that the changing of a diacritical marking is going to alter the meaning of the vord itself. Diacritical markings only modify the relevant letter, but they do not change it to a different letter. Are there any examples in relevant languages where this situation of 'macron duality' exists? Is there a real difference between the markings, or is it just a case of multiple scribes and not the neatest examples of handwriting? Is there a VMs version of 'moon' without any macron?

Are diacritical marks used for vowels, or for consonants? It may depend on the reference language.

According to the article entitled "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view." by Beáta Megyesi, Crina Tudor, Benedek Láng, Anna Lehofer, Nils Kopal, Karl de Leeuw, and Michelle Waldispühl (2022):

"Instead of introducing new symbols, diacritics could be used to distinguish between codes. Diacritics appear in 40% of the nomenclatures from the 15th century to separate codes, but their usage became less frequent over time as digits became more popular for encoding. Diacritics occur mostly with graphic signs (G), followed by alphabetical letters (A), and less likely to occur with digits (D)."

Does the lunar folio illustrate knowledge about trigonometry?

(07-04-2025, 10:50 PM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Does the lunar folio illustrate knowledge about the π = 3.14... constant, 360°/π = 90° + 14.59...° = 114.59...° ≈ 115° ?

90+25 = 115

Note that 360° = 12 × (2 × 15°) = 11 × (2 × 16.36...°) and the value of just 1.36...° makes the difference when splitting a circle into 12 or 11 equal parts.

For the interpretation of the circular text, one should consider the occurrence of: 
- A single long circular paragraph; or
- Two distinct paragraphs of disproportionate sizes separated by the gap at 15°-16° degrees clockwise from the vertical axis.

There is also a third location on the lunar diagram where a straight line can pass from the center through the circular text without crossing any symbols as shown in the attached image.

Therefore, three lines which can be plotted from the center separate the circular text into three distinct parts of comparable sizes.

Resuming the work initiated in page 3 of this thread, let's assume that the meaning (if any) of the vord roots cheod and c'heod is closely related to the Moon.

The attached image shows the number of occurrences of c'heod and c'heody in distinct words.
The corresponding prefixes and suffixes are highlighted in yellow.

The attached image shows the number of occurrences of cheod and cheody in distinct vords.
The corresponding prefixes and suffixes are highlighted in yellow.

Well, there you have it - 32 instances with the "macron" and 70 instances without. No other similar vord variations hit double digits. The only difference is the presence of the presumed "macron". What does the macron do? Does it function as a modification of pronunciation, or is it part of a totally separate glyph? How does the usage of these two vords play out across the VMs text? Are they clustered together? Are they interchangeable? How do they associate to the different VMs Hands?

One can flip the graph of the 11 Hellenistic Moon phases 180 degrees about the horizontal axis.

Then the gap in the cipher text at 15°-16° degrees clockwise from the vertical axis corresponds to the rising (first visibility) Moon phase.