The Voynich Ninja

Several symbols from the Syrian manuscript are similar or identical to letters from various alphabets. The plant cipher looks somehow like the Ogham script from Ireland. It's hard to tell if the parallels are entirety coincidental...

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Quote:The tradition according to which the name of the letters of the Ogham alphabet comes from names of trees originated in this document (The Book of Ballymote. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS. 23 p 12)

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If we turned this 90' to horizontal, ascenders and descenders would become our left and right branches.
So, "takey" and "folcg" would be the same once deciphered. It would waste a lot of paper.. but would make a pretty cool alphabet.

The example you show seems to have an example of this with ascending IIII being "c" and descending IIII being "r". 

Don't mean to suggest this is what the VM text is doing, just interesting to think about I guess.