Well, if the only tool you've got is a hammer... I've found a bunch of new nail-looking planetary label things on f72r3 (Cancer Zodiac).
Quick summary:
As I've said in my last post, my favorite hypothesis on VMS writing is that it is a many-to-many character based scheme, where depending on some unknown factor the same plaintext can be encoded in different ways and at the same time the same transliteration of the encoded text can produce different plaintexts. The unknown factor in question could be the context (page key, preceding text), some feature of the writing system (variation of letter shapes, variation of spacing) or something purely external to the text (idk, distance from the edge or some predefined point of page or even an external grille).
It is possible that a scheme like this would produce partially matching encoded text for the same plaintext, in character sequences or in structure. E.g., when encoding some word one of the outcomes could be BGGKLFGJ, another ACCKLFCJ, with G replaced by C and B by A and the rest of the letters remaining the same.
So, after making a somewhat plausible, but very uncertain mapping between planet labels in planet names for f67r2, I've started poking around for other similar sequences of 7 labels in VMS. And I found something interesting, a sequence which bears some visual similarity to the planet labels on f67r2 and put in a plausible order. There are some implications for the planetary labels research for f67r2 as well.
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Is this wishful thinking or something potentially real, what's your opinion? I really can't tell. I spent two weeks looking mostly at astrological charts, so now naturally I tend to see planetary sequences everywhere.
Quick summary:
As I've said in my last post, my favorite hypothesis on VMS writing is that it is a many-to-many character based scheme, where depending on some unknown factor the same plaintext can be encoded in different ways and at the same time the same transliteration of the encoded text can produce different plaintexts. The unknown factor in question could be the context (page key, preceding text), some feature of the writing system (variation of letter shapes, variation of spacing) or something purely external to the text (idk, distance from the edge or some predefined point of page or even an external grille).
It is possible that a scheme like this would produce partially matching encoded text for the same plaintext, in character sequences or in structure. E.g., when encoding some word one of the outcomes could be BGGKLFGJ, another ACCKLFCJ, with G replaced by C and B by A and the rest of the letters remaining the same.
So, after making a somewhat plausible, but very uncertain mapping between planet labels in planet names for f67r2, I've started poking around for other similar sequences of 7 labels in VMS. And I found something interesting, a sequence which bears some visual similarity to the planet labels on f67r2 and put in a plausible order. There are some implications for the planetary labels research for f67r2 as well.
You can read the rest here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Is this wishful thinking or something potentially real, what's your opinion? I really can't tell. I spent two weeks looking mostly at astrological charts, so now naturally I tend to see planetary sequences everywhere.