18-03-2019, 09:59 PM
Like JKP, I'm a fan of Ockham's razor. If in the XVII century and in the XX and what we have from this century no linguistic solution has worked, why not try something else?
The 'otol' test that Anton proposes is flawed in advance because we mechanically think in letters and sounds. I think it is more likely that EVA-l to be the number 4 in its Arab shape. I'm a librarian, I've seen hundreds of times this number with this shape in manuscripts of the Voynich's time.
In volvelles from the same time I've seen the number 4 in its Arab shape stand for some Zodiac signs.
What I believe is that the labels of Voynich stars indeed are like names because they serve to identify, to mark positions in the space, in the celestial sphere. These names-like mark also herbs and tubes that depends on a star. That's why we see 'otol' marking diferent things. But I insist, 'otol' is not 'otol'. They are glyphs that stand for a place, a place in movement.
The 'otol' test that Anton proposes is flawed in advance because we mechanically think in letters and sounds. I think it is more likely that EVA-l to be the number 4 in its Arab shape. I'm a librarian, I've seen hundreds of times this number with this shape in manuscripts of the Voynich's time.
In volvelles from the same time I've seen the number 4 in its Arab shape stand for some Zodiac signs.
What I believe is that the labels of Voynich stars indeed are like names because they serve to identify, to mark positions in the space, in the celestial sphere. These names-like mark also herbs and tubes that depends on a star. That's why we see 'otol' marking diferent things. But I insist, 'otol' is not 'otol'. They are glyphs that stand for a place, a place in movement.