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[Antonio García Jiménez]

This page is undoubtedly one of the weaknesses of the VM, in the sense that it reveals some particularities of the script system. One of the singularities, apart from the four repeating sequences, are the rare glyphs, seven glyphs that are barely or never seen in the main text. On the same page we see some of them in other circles, always as single characters. They never group together like the others to form words.

Undoubtedly, those rare glyphs cannot be phonemes, letters. If they were, we would see them grouped with the other glyphs. What can they be? They could represent numbers, but I believe they are astrological aspects, that is, angular relationships. In fact, that glyph that looks like an inverted [v] can represent a trine, one of the most important astrological aspects. A trine is the so-called clock on the Rosettes page. And in the VM there is a whole page (f67v2) with drawings of the astrological aspects that the sun and the moon make.

Furthermore, those rare glyphs are on a page that is clearly an astronomical-astrological diagram, which reinforces the idea that these are astrological aspects.