How woud an attack work? Spiral text as Rev. 6:14.

[Emma May Smith]

The last word in the spiral text is [opalxy]. This is the first thing I would consider.

The glyph [x] is very uncommon. It is the least common glyph which appears in the body text. Outside the Rosettes page, [x] occurs 22 times in the main text, and ten more times in diagrams/margins. It is also never used by hands 1 and 4, according to the transcription. So [x] can be considered as "non-essential" to writing the Voynich text.

When we see a word which contains [x] we have to ask why it was used. Is it for a rare word, a borrowed word, an unusual sound, and rare encoding method? It must have added something which wasn't generally needed in most of the text. But what?

What in this verse of Revelation is unusual which might need [x]? If we assume (however safe or unsafe) that the final word in the Voynich text belongs to the final clause, "and all the mountains and islands were shifted from their places." What in this phrase is outside the norm?

For this verse of Revelation to fit the spiral text we would need to either a) suggest that [x] is only accidentally rare, or b) that the encoding method includes rare glyphs which occur less than two dozen times but encodes something very normal, or c) find a language which uses an unusual word to render this verse.

Were the underlying text to be, "the students of sphragistics ate ptarmigan with X Æ A-Xii", then we might have some targets to attach [x]. Otherwise, the question of [x] remains outstanding in this discussion and should be addressed.