Hello folks.
I thought I'd offer something different...a glyph word story.
It may not mean anything to you. Maybe it will. You decide. Maybe it is just a story.
First Glyph Words
Here's how to read your first words in the Voynich Manuscript in the glyph text.
Not deconstruct - read.
There aren't many that read rather than deconstruct.
Turn to folio 16r. Look at the second line of text.
The EVA = ychykchy glyphs at the start of the line, do you see them?
Good.
They read, in English, hshesh (with a long e). That's how hashish is still, after a thousand years, sounded in some areas of the world.
Look at the plant image on the page.
That's a pot plant.
And there aren't many likelier repeated words to be expected on a page with an image of a pot plant with the same glyph/letter/sound at both ends and in the middle - and another glyph/letter/sound, the EVA = ch, sounded as s, in exactly the two expected places.
Okay, you say, you don't believe it.
Wait a minute...repeated?
Go to the last glyphs at the end of the third line from the end in the third paragraph on the page.
They're the same glyphs in line 2 of the first paragraph.
It's hshesh, again.
Now you have read your second word in the VMS.
Those of you that can do such things with your magic computer gizmos report back how many times this combination of glyphs in this order are repeated in the VMS, please.
I don't know, but don't think it is very many.
Look at the plant image again. Go find or email anyone you know that has ever grown pot and ask that person what the image of the plant on You are not allowed to view links.
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They'll tell you,
"That's a pot plant."
Now you've read the word twice and you've looked at the plant image twice or thrice and you say, no, you're still not convinced.
Okay.
On the next to last line on the page, the first glyphs read EVA = dychokchy shcthy.
This is where I ask you to bear with me for a bit. I think the EVA = o glyph should have a downstroke to make it into an EVA = y glyph. This is possibly because the downstroke was omitted through scribal error or because the author didn't want the same obvious progression of glyphs found at three places on such a brief page.
Whatever.
If you will allow me this small addition, the text reads ahshesh i(ng)h (with a long e). (I think the EVA = y at the end of the second word makes the glyph before it have a long sound so maybe the EVA = shcthy is sounded as ieen rather than the normal i(ng)h).
This word may be a Fifteenth Century phonetic equivalent of ahashishieen (assassins in modern English) - the fanatic followers of The Old Man of the Mountain in Syria from the early Crusader stories brought back by returning Crusaders and also later in Marco Polo's travelogue in the Thirteenth Century. They reportedly (and arguably) got their name from being hashish eaters, the meaning of ahashisheen.
That's your third word.
That's enough. I've strained your credulity enough for one day.
Go read two or three of the Old Man of the Mountain stories. Some go way, way back. Read Marco Polo's account. And/or the Bishop of Acre's.
You have read your first glyph words.
That's the end of my little story for today.
I hope you liked it.
It's a true story.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee