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[JoJo_Jost]

I used this to develop a cipher. I thought that if you take the Voynich letters of the words from the quadrant at the start (top left) and look for two of them on different circles, this results in a line that points to a letter in an imaginary 5 ring containing the Latin alphabet. (see image). If another letter appears on the line on a third circle following the two selected letters, there would be three letters for one letter. If the line points to a word, it is the letter in the word that is hit. If a line goes through the middle of two letters, then it is both words.

This way, you could write a letter with two to four letters. Since that would shorten the text, I switched to letters and standard syllables. With each new letter, the next quadrant was selected. With each new word, everything was reset to the beginning.

The order and approximate alignment of the lines that could be drawn had to be aligned with the hands of the nymphs.

I was actually able to find a few initial lines, but they did not form meaningful words, and with more lines, the system collapsed. In addition, typical Voynich syllables were massively underrepresented, others not at all, etc. In short, it failed miserably. 

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But I found it to be an interesting cipher because, in my opinion, it's very hard to crack it. Why? Because when you encrypt a text, you can move very freely from the letters/syllables on the outer circle inwards into the circles. And that's in four quadrants. So for each letter/syllable, there were many different possibilities, which also overlapped with others in other quadrants. So two letters in one quadrant would mean something different than the same two letters in another quadrant. And with the key, it can be decrypted very quickly, using only a ruler.

All that remained was to optimize the labeling of the circles, as unfortunately duplicate letters were also possible within a quadrant. As I said, the system crashed.