26-05-2024, 08:59 PM
(26-05-2024, 08:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I believe is that the glyph [o], which is the most common in the script, is a representation of the stars.
In fact, there are many stars in VM imagery that are represented with a small central circle.
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Thanks for that observation, Antonio. I agree. [o] = a star = a degree of the ecliptic. That is why I regard [o] as the primal glyph in this system. We also see it in a series [ooooooo...] There is an abundance of statistics to support that view. A good 25% of words start with [o]. It is by far the most frequent glyph in the text (and especially so if we allow that [y] is a variant of [o].)
At the bedrock, then, the model for the notation is a cycle of 360 [o] glyphs.
I think the notation system is astrologically coherent. It is not beyond explication. We might say that the "plaintext" is the Ptolemaic cosmology. We can work out the notation. I think it is possible. In fact, I think it is possible from existing data and that has probably been the case since the 1970s. The obstacles are conceptual.

