The Voynich Manuscript as an Iberian-African Voyage Record

[Kaybo]

When I looked at the EVA translation, one thing that I don't understand is, why K and T should be different Symbols. Isnt it obvious, that it is the same? If you make analysis of the EVA translation it shows you that there is an extrem K <-> T substitution in words. So there are a lot of words that exchange K for T or vice versa. First I thought thats a homophonic substitution, but it is just the same word in the original document, just one time transcribed into T and the other time into a K. How can someone use this EVA transcript to analyse anything?

This is easier so I will start here. EVA-k has no loop on the left side and EVA-t has it. It's important to understand that all the EVA transcription is claiming is that those two variants exist and you can usually recognize them. And, in the great many cases most people agree which is which, but with any transcription choice you will find some instances where the judgement of the community divides. It is not claiming that those variants are different letters in the manuscript, and indeed there's good evidence EVA-a and EVA-y might be variants of each other. If you want to analyze EVA-k and EVA-t as the same---you are not the first person to suggest this---it's as easy as replacing all the "t" in the transcript with "k" and they will be the same. Had they been transcribed as the same, those of us who believe the difference is likely significant would have to redo the transcript. 

To your bigger question about how to get more recognition for this idea, it needs more convincing proof. Before I offer some ideas how you might provide that, I am going to ask: Did an LLM play a role in generating this hypothesis and have you checked to make sure everything it said is verifiable? I see some signs that there may be some hallucinations here.

LLMs were used later, but just for general information. The idea started by looking at the plants, like probably a lot of ideas started. After we discovered some plants we know from Africa, we just looked at the time frame of the carbon dating. And thought that this does not fit together. I googled it and the only explanation how there could be plants from Africa is that the manuscript is from Portugal. And then everything makes sense. What is LLM: Portugal started to hide their information (not encryption, that is only known later) and that this were very valuable information. I also got the information from LLM that naked woman were used symbolic for Africa, but you can find evidence for that everywere. Like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 

And then no further LLMs were used. It was too obvious (probably like always when you are fixed into one idea). You look up what a nautical logbook/report would look like, that it is obvious that it contains information about everything you can exploit from this area, like plants or valuable jars. Then it was simple to look up what kind of jars at that time were made in the Guinea area of west Africa...than the ivory jars pop up which was one of the most valuable things for Portugal to exploid there and of cause black pepper. Which already identified before in the manuscript, but made even more sense then. 

Then I was looking up how they navigated at that time and found out that they used the Astrolabe which is an instrument like a circle and that circle diagrams were used to show the settings in books that need to be used. And that it was a big problem at that time because the astrolabe data was only available for the northern hemisphere and was not working for the southern hemisphere. And then by accident I see that the first zodiac sign was there 2 times. One time with woman with clothes and one time with woman without cloth. Which then made completely sense, because the version with the woman with the clothes are a symbol for the northern hemisphere, like civilized and the version with the naked woman were the new version that would be needed to navigate in the southern hemisphere.

By accident, I was reading about how Portugal kept there valuable information secret, I came across the cantino planisphere, because it was a big thing that "Italy" stole it. Books are written about that ;-) However, if I looked at compass rose, there was this face in the compass rose, which is the god of wind. It looks like the same in the compass rose (and it is definitely a compass rose) in the voynich manuscript. If this manuscript contains a compass rose...then it is something nautical, not something something for astrology or a herbal book or something, that makes no sense. 

And so on...hints pile up. So LLMs were not really used, because they are mainly not useful, just to get context and then look things up.