The presence of FIVE

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A second type of interpretation exists in the 17 symbol sequence. It requires that two symbols from the VMs sequence match two symbols from a known cultural system, like the Greek alphabet, in their visual appearance - and in their placement, their location relative to each other. And in the VMs sequence, the symbols 1 and 5 have comparable form and placement with the Greek symbols omicron and lambda. The visual aspects of subjective interpretation have been given positional confirmation by their objective placement in the sequence. It's something that needs to be built into the drawing's construction that is beyond similar appearance.

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Greek, yes, we agree on that.

However, I have a different interpretation. I don't think this is 1) omicron, 5) lamda. I think what it resembles, in old-style script, is 1) omicron or omega or zero 2) alpha 3) beta 4) gamma 5) delta—four Greek characters in sequence (in old script, the base of delta was not always drawn or was sometimes incompletely drawn). Whether the first one is omicron, omega, zero, or just plain null (in the cipher sense) is difficult to determine. If I remember correctly, omega was sometimes drawn as an "o" shape on some of the ancient Greek pottery but this was not typical in the middle ages.

Alpha is tipped to one side, but was sometimes drawn like this. Beta was sometimes drawn like this. Gamma sometimes had a tail but never as dramatic as this one, but I suspect that the tail is emphasized to make it look more like Latin, where this glyph occurs frequently. Not sure though.


I haven't been able to equate any of the VMS glyphs to Greek letters in the meaning sense, but I think Greek letters may have inspired some of the VMS glyph forms: