Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

You can't just go by numbers, you have to LOOK at how the change manifests in the text.

Let's say I write the words "harbour" and "colour" and "theatre" in the first part of the manuscript, but then I decide to use "harbor" and "color" and "theater" instead.

What would happen statistically is that the frequency of the letter "u" would dramatically change from one section to the next, but the meaning of the words doesn't change at all.

So you have to look at WHAT changed in the VMS. If a common word gets written essentailly the same way but one character was dropped later on, then ask yourself what does that mean? Was that a substantive change? A change in language? Or was it just an easier way to write that particular vord or chunk or syllable?

JP, I very much doubt that any conversion of something from British English into American English could result in letter-count discrepancies of the magnitude that we see between Curriers A and B because most words in both versions of English are spelled exactly the same. Why should we expect to see something different in the VMS?

On the other hand, one might expect encoded text to remain somewhat rigorous or consistent throughout, which is something that we do not find in the VMS, forcing us to conclude that different systems of encoding are being employed or that some parts of the VMS may not be encoded at all.

In view of the 68 characters (72 by inserting blank spaces between the four sequences of 17) on the alphabet wheel, it seems that the wheels might require an input line of at least 60 characters for the decryption process to function properly ie. input lines might need to wrap around the wheel to allow for a pairing of characters from opposite sides of the wheels. Except for paragraph ends (possibly inserted for left to right deception), lines in the Deep Text section have this length.

It is therefore unclear how the wheels could serve to decode the short lines written around the plants in the herbal sections not to mention the many labels found in different sections of the VMS. Any ideas?