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Obfuscation combination - R. Sale - 21-09-2020
The investigations of the VMs cosmos and the zodiac sequence seem to reveal a complex combination of various methods of trickery, disguise, heraldic canting and obfuscation. Multiple methods of obfuscation are used in the illustrations. Why not in the written text as well? In a way, this is incorporated in the suggestions that the language may in some part contain or be composed of nulls, filler etc.
At the same time, the statistical method of investigation is to take the entire written corpus and analyze it as if all parts are equally valid. However, this cannot be expected to give useful results if that assumption is false.
So, if the VMs does contain meaningful text, in combination with meaningless filler, there needs to be a way to differentiate between them. Differentiation based on internal characteristics would be a herculean task. If it was intended that meaning could be recovered from the VMs, then a simple and reliable, yet subtle, method needs to be employed to designate meaningful text. That method is position, the use of a specific location. The problem then is to define and discover how the specific location is designated. And the method used here is tradition - disguised, obfuscated, unrecognized, forgotten tradition as seen or not seen in the illustrations.
Rather than labelling text as meaningful and meaningless (filler), there might be two (or more) methods or levels of obfuscation. The majority of text could be obfuscated by a more difficult method, while the text with a simpler method of obfuscation, containing key information, would be the part that is physically hidden.