Could incantations explain some of the problems of the Voynich Manuscript

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Just because <aiin> is transliterated in EVA using what, in English and other human languages, are 3 vowels and 1 consonant, we can't assume that's what the glyphs actually represent, phonologically.

In some cases I see no harm in this, if people don't claim specific reading as the right one, but are just looking at patterns and assuming a chant. After all, many Voynichese characters are similar to Latin characters and if the manuscript is European in origin, you can assume the original scribe(s) might refer to individual Voynichese glyphs phonetically in the same way. I'm not sure about n, but air would read air for most and qodey would probably read as qoscus, qoseus or qobcus or something like this. It's not impossible that 30% of the present EVA mappings were already used in the XV century to describe the appearance of the script.

In relation to the general proposition that the contents of the manuscript comprise, to some extent or another, a set of incantations, I can actually see a lot of merit in this idea, especially in the context of the excellent work Koen has done on understanding the mixed plain text/Voynichese on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Some kind of mystical, incantatory mumbo jumbo using repetition and alliteration might help explain some - but not all - of the linguistic and statistical idiosyncrasies of Voynichese. I think further study of the customary structure of charms and incantations is well worth pursuing to see if any other parallels can be discerned.

I don't think You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a proper charm, to me it looks like something that is made to resemble a charm. My favourite interpretation of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. inscription is that this is the key or a mnemonic to the cipher of the manuscript. Overall, I don't think the manuscript necessarily has anything to do with charms or spells.