Paradigms & Year: a Model

 

This is one way of projecting our two paradigms, or verbum potentiae, onto the wheel of the year. 

It is clarifying and revealing in many ways.

We place the gallows glyphs at the solstices and equinoxes.

The [o] glyphs then create the primitive paradigm: OTOPO

Then we trace how QOKEEDY and CHOLDAIIN evolve – unfold is the proper term – from the primitive paradigm.

When we do this we can see why QOKEEDY is tripartite in form, and why CHOLDAIIN bifurcates. 

QOKEEDY is a division of 90 degrees as 30 x 3 = 90.

CHOLDAIIN is a division of 90 degrees as 45 x 2 = 90.

This presents the realisation that – in these terms – the difference between the two paradigms is the difference between the twelvefold year and the eightfold year. 

QOKEEDY is an expression of the zodiacal division of 90 degrees by 3 – three signs of 30 degrees, from Solstice to Equinox. 

CHOLDAIIN, however, is an expression of the bifurcation of 90 degrees, and thereby the division of the circle by eight. This marks the festivals between the solstices and equinoxes. 

Quarter days and cross-quarter days.

In a post a long, long time ago – see here – I observed that the tension between the twelve and the eight must be central to the cosmology of the manuscript. 

It is actually a tension at the heart of the construction of Voynichese. 

R.B.