No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

When you begins to see the VM script one of the most striking things that you observe is that some glyphs seem to move, change position. This fruitful observation disappears when you transliterate the glyphs to convert them into letters.

For example,you see a stick with an arrowhead on the tip attached to another glyph in the form of a small circle. They are in line with the others glyphs of the string. But you also see the same stick with the same arrowhead above the line attached to another glyph. You observe that the stick goes up, seem to move. This is a fundamental observation to understand the script, but its potential fruits disappear when you read Eva-q and Eva-t. Similarity and movement has been lost.

There are other glyphs that change position. You see one of the benches next to the gallows and you also see the same bench under the gallows. It also seems to move. And the leaned stripe that look like the letter i doubles and triples (i ii iii) to indicate that it changes position. The same goes for the glyph that looks like the letter c.

This feature of the VM script, the movement, is key to understanding how the glyph strings were generated and what they mean.