07-12-2018, 04:04 AM
(06-12-2018, 06:03 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you realize how truly weird this statement is? ALL letters are various other strokes turned or elongated or shortened. That's how letters evolve. That's how they are designed. The letter b is the letter d mirrored. An ell is i elongated without the dot. A medieval f is a medieval s with a crossbar. Noticing a similarity in shape means nothing. You have to DEMONSTRATE that there is a relationship between them that goes beyond the similarity in shape and you haven't done that. You've only pointed out the obvious.
JP, I was only trying to suggest that the symbol ½ might be a gate and not the Latin letter y inserted into Voynichese script. But you are certainly welcome to believe it's a y. It's theoretically possible for it to be a y.
The theory of gates primarily concerns the conversion of VMS symbols into letters of the Latin alphabet via numerical manipulations. It derives its input from the following schematic:
Three Mothers
Aleph ; 1 ; A,E
Mem ; 40 ; M
Shin ; 300 ; SH,SS
Seven Doubles
Bet ; 2 ; B,V
Gimel ; 3 ; C,G
Dalet ; 4 ; D
Kaf ; 20 ; C,K,KH
Pe ; 80 ; P,PH,F
Resh ; 200 ; R
Tav ; 400 ; TH,T
Twelve Elementals
He ; 5 ; H,E
Vav ; 6 ; V,O,U,W
Zayin ; 7 ; Z,S
Chet ; 8 ; CH
Tet ; 9 ; T
Yod ; 10 ; I,Y,J,E
Lamed ; 30 ; L
Nun ; 50 ; N
Samech ; 60 ; S
Ayin ; 70 ; A,AA,YOL,OL
Tsade ; 90 ; X,TZ,TS,Z
Qof ; 100 ; Q,K,CK
There are not all that many unique strokes in Voynichese so I think they might be working with only mothers and doubles to form symbols. But via the numbers, we can produce elementals as well. For example, the three mothers add up to 341 (1 + 40 + 300) which in turn reduces to 8 (3 + 4 + 1) giving us the Latin Ch sound as in the word church.
The biggest problem is associating components of the gates with the correct Hebrew letters. I think the three mothers might be the strokes i, ')' and l, respectively, but even that is not certain. I'm currently looking around for identification clues. Moreover, gates may combine with other gates on the wheels for even greater complexity.
Keep in mind that this is only theory. It may all come to nothing.