9 hours ago
Here is the thread to his Bavarian theory:
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Your finding once again raises the question why the author would go through the trouble of establishing such complex rules just to create meaningless text. I'd say either it was some sort of 4D chess to fool scholars even centuries later, or the text content or at lest the creation process itself was of importance to the author (for whatever obscure reason). Otherwise I think it's hard to justify the amount of thought and work that must have gone into making the VMS.
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Your finding once again raises the question why the author would go through the trouble of establishing such complex rules just to create meaningless text. I'd say either it was some sort of 4D chess to fool scholars even centuries later, or the text content or at lest the creation process itself was of importance to the author (for whatever obscure reason). Otherwise I think it's hard to justify the amount of thought and work that must have gone into making the VMS.
(11 hours ago)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'll check with my transliteration that includes detailed space sizes. This could potentially explain the weird spacing: some glyphs were inserted in a 2nd pass. But the insertion of a glyph obviously reduces the space between words: do you mean close even before the glyph was inserted?It's worth to check if the glyphs in question look notably different in ink or style, suggesting they might have been inserted in a 2nd pass.