Historic cipher mapping

[MichelleL11]

The Polybius square (with a slight modification) was what I meant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Great!  I was going to suggest this and try to get cross references between this idea and your litoreia idea. 

Ironically enough, I, personally have extremely poor spatial sense.  It means I almost always turn the wrong way when lost while driving (to the point where I turn the opposite way "I think" I should go in hopes of being more likely to be right); routinely get very lost in open world video games (although maybe continuing to challenge myself with this kind of thinking is a low risk way to "train" my brain a bit?); and just have a very poor innate sense of how things are related to each other in space (makes parking a real pain).

But I still can perceive the real possibilities in the combination of one or more verbose ciphers (where one involves a kind of transposition) from the point of view of the kind of visual, associative, and entropic characteristics the Voynich exhibits.

Thanks so much for working on this and I'll keep trying -- but it certainly isn't my mental strong point.  If I come up with any insights, I will definitely post -- but for now I'm just trying to get an initial wrap around how these things could be combined.

Maybe I'll see if I can find anything about the transfer of Polybius from a semaphore to a written "square" -- such history could be useful.