Years ago, I was looking into the possibility that the text might be maps...
![[Image: VMSStegMap.png]](https://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/VMSStegMap.png)
This isn't one of my original "maps", I did this just now to provide a simple example, but it turns out to be almost as intractable a problem as trying to figure out the text from a linguistic point of view...
The difficulty with interpreting the text as imagery is there are SO many possible interpretations and combinations... could something be represented by one glyph, two glyphs, three glyphs, four glyphs? Or are the spaces and half-spaces significant (do they represent boundaries?)? I ended up with so many different ways to approach it, I had to let it go for a while so I could think about whether there were any clues as to how it might be orchestrated.
There are a lot of odd spacings in the text, and places where it looks like the text may have been laid down in more than one pass and so often where that happens, I could see diagonal lines in the spaces. That's what made me wonder if the page itself might be a map (or some kind of drawing).
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Mnemonically, the idea of a gallows character (or a benched gallows) fits rather well with the idea of a castle or walled city. But there are also combination glyphs. What if the shape combined with some glyphs is a castle and the same shape combined with other glyphs is something else?
It was just an idea I had, a long time ago, that I thought might explain the great amount of positionality (combination glyphs) and repetition in the VMS, and perhaps even the positionality of a whole line, but i could never find an interpretation for the patterns that could be verified in any way.
This isn't one of my original "maps", I did this just now to provide a simple example, but it turns out to be almost as intractable a problem as trying to figure out the text from a linguistic point of view...
The difficulty with interpreting the text as imagery is there are SO many possible interpretations and combinations... could something be represented by one glyph, two glyphs, three glyphs, four glyphs? Or are the spaces and half-spaces significant (do they represent boundaries?)? I ended up with so many different ways to approach it, I had to let it go for a while so I could think about whether there were any clues as to how it might be orchestrated.
There are a lot of odd spacings in the text, and places where it looks like the text may have been laid down in more than one pass and so often where that happens, I could see diagonal lines in the spaces. That's what made me wonder if the page itself might be a map (or some kind of drawing).
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Mnemonically, the idea of a gallows character (or a benched gallows) fits rather well with the idea of a castle or walled city. But there are also combination glyphs. What if the shape combined with some glyphs is a castle and the same shape combined with other glyphs is something else?
It was just an idea I had, a long time ago, that I thought might explain the great amount of positionality (combination glyphs) and repetition in the VMS, and perhaps even the positionality of a whole line, but i could never find an interpretation for the patterns that could be verified in any way.