30-11-2020, 09:12 AM
Why do people seem to assume that Voynichese glyphs can be mapped to common European alphabets and any extraneous glyphs that don't fit can be dropped? This is a question I share with davidjackson.
In the VM script there are dozens of different glyphs. Some may be variants introduced by some of the scribes, but most are glyphs with their own meaning. This meaning is not phonetic, it is iconic
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It is a representation of the phases of the Moon very common to see in medieval manuscripts. What I think is that the VM glyphs c, cc, ccc come out of the transposition of this image to a code. And the benches come out joining the nearby moons, the waxing and waning moons. The plain bench is formed at the full moon and when it is close, and the bench with a top stroke when it is a new moon or close.
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The sun joins the moons by rays. In the VM script the gallows unite the sun and the full moon between both celestial hemispheres. In the case of the new moon, the sun is in the same hemisphere. No need for a gallows. The link is represented by the top stroke of the bench.
You may think this is all to imaginative. But also think that we are talking about a time when people were mostly illiterate and images and symbols had great didactic power
In the VM script there are dozens of different glyphs. Some may be variants introduced by some of the scribes, but most are glyphs with their own meaning. This meaning is not phonetic, it is iconic
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It is a representation of the phases of the Moon very common to see in medieval manuscripts. What I think is that the VM glyphs c, cc, ccc come out of the transposition of this image to a code. And the benches come out joining the nearby moons, the waxing and waning moons. The plain bench is formed at the full moon and when it is close, and the bench with a top stroke when it is a new moon or close.
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The sun joins the moons by rays. In the VM script the gallows unite the sun and the full moon between both celestial hemispheres. In the case of the new moon, the sun is in the same hemisphere. No need for a gallows. The link is represented by the top stroke of the bench.
You may think this is all to imaginative. But also think that we are talking about a time when people were mostly illiterate and images and symbols had great didactic power