Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

As you can see, the first line accurately describes the poet's flower, and observe that there's a macron in the last line. Another macron cannot be found elsewhere in that lengthy poem and, as a general rule, macrons are not normally employed in the English language.

Sure they were. Not quite as often as Latin, but they certainly used them.

That's a printed book. Macrons were gradually dropped in printed books, which were for a wider audience. But they existed in manuscripts.

Sorry, JP, I was referring to modern English, not Old English. As stated, the poem in question dates to 1593.

While on the theme of macrons, I see that you never responded to my suggestion that your infamous "y" macron could be a Lamed macron. We find it in quire-number position at the bottom right-hand corner of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Sigillum Dei page):



I argued that Lamed was more likely than "y" based on numerical considerations, but Hebrew characters also act as letters and now I see that the Sigillum Doornenburgensis may have provided us with a clue on how to expand that single-letter macron.

To make a long story short, there could be a connection between the 72 Latin divine names of the Sigillum Dei and the 72 Hebrew divine names which are derived from three consecutive verses of Exodus each containing 72 letters. Essentially, this could mean that we may have to decode making use of three wheels of Sigillum Dei (each with the first letter of the 72 Latin names dispersed around the edge) rather than just one wheel. Thus, for example, following the directional logic of the three sets of 24 Hebrew names, we take a VMS paragraph and rap it around the first wheel in counterclockwise direction, then continue (with the remainder of the paragraph) on the second wheel in a clockwise direction, and finally, we move on to the third wheel in a counterclockwise direction.



As you can see, the rupture for four blank spaces (to bring the 68 {17 x 4} up to 72) has two starting lines within (a double bar), apparently to signal that we can begin by running the VMS glyphs around the wheel in either direction, counterclockwise or clockwise.

One can imagine, of course, that the 12 sets of 17 VMS glyphs (four per wheel) serve as the mechanism for converting the paragraph glyphs into letters of the Latin alphabet. Wishful thinking? Perhaps. We'll find out: my plans call for continued research until the end of September with decoding efforts to begin in October.

In the meantime, if I get the chance, I'll try to post a few comments on how the second macron leads to some fascinating possibilities for the history and implementation of VMS encryption.