(25-01-2021, 06:49 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And there appears to be an extra squiggle "hanging" off the left end of the horizontal-ish line, although this is fainter.
A rather unusual design.
Overall this doesn't strike me as being the work of the same person who made the messy scratches on 86v3.
Are there two scratchers?
its unclear if it is indeed messy or intentional obfuscation (steganogrpahy).
as far as my byzantium-conjecture about the reading of the messy one.
i will say that i have seen this (and had to read this) language code-use before,
where there are intermingling words that make it uncertain about what any particular word means
but with the addition of more words more meaning develops and possibly with extra curricular context
(that is no inherent in the words themselves) it makes more sense.
it is very much analagous to a mix between "find-a-word" puzzles and fuzzy logic.
Its kind of a middle ground between what we normallty think of steganography
which is where a message contained in an image is non obvious to a passer by
and a fully encrypted message. This way, it is not extremely obvious but still peculiar
to investigators, but still retains some level of data hiding to those who dont know the context
or to those who reject it as being merely a scratch.
what is interesting about the 87r one is that they immediately remind me of the church symbol for P.
this symbol is a early christian symbol that represents
"tau-rho," not a "chi-rho."
generally speaking the Tao-Rho is thought to be a shortened form of the words "cross" and "crucify" (σταυρος, σταυροω).
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this reminds us of bax's mention of
Taurus.
so this is indeed a major clue about deciphering the VMS.
thats all i will say there for now.
the lines that make the triangle also remind me of
triangulation,
which also has come up more recently in strange unexplained phenomenon.
with any three positions, you can triangulate a signal, that is, you can localise something.
the use of triangulation dates to antiquity.
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I dont necessarily imagine two scratchers here, just that the more messy one is more entropic (more information).
The other scratches are simpler symbols. but i agree two scratchers is certainly a possibility.
As interesting as this speculation, the question remains about whether its contemporary or added afterwards by someone else.