A Season Model

Further thought experiments on Voynichese as the year made text.

I have proposed the following correspondences to the gallows glyphs:

[t] = winter solstice

[p] = spring equinox

[k] = summer solsticve

[f] = autumn equinox

We can map our template, our verbum potentiae, QOKEEDY onto this scheme thus:

And we can map our other template, CHOLDAIIN, onto it thus:

This proposes that the primal glyph [o] (omicron) appears transformed as the glyphs: [a], [y], [i], [e] [ee], [ch] and [sh].

These are all short glyphs. There is a simple distinction between short glyphs and tall glyphs.

Tall glyphs mark the four quarters of the cycle. Short glyphs go in the spaces between them.

Otherwise, we might call them vowels and consonants. 

Here is the first word [fachys] in the manuscript set to this scheme:

The gallows [f] and the final [s] mark quarters of the year. The glyphs between them – all variants of [o] – provide information regarding the intervening SEASON. 

We could provide the zodiacal correspondences thus:

Here is another word set to this scheme:

I am only using words with gallows glyphs, and, for now, I am avoiding the question of the benched gallows.

The gallows glyph, in this scheme, signals the quarter of the year to which we apply the pattern. 

The implication is that the vowel clusters (short glyphs based on [o]) signal information about the corresponding season. 

It could be as simple as information about rainfall. Perhaps [ch] signals a wet month and [i] signals dry?

Sometimes the season is undivided, sometimes bifurcated and sometimes divided into three parts, rarely more. 

Similarly, different consonants (tall glyphs) signal different aspects of the year’s quarters.

The glyph [r], for instance, might indicate a dry solstice? 

It is a simple system that could convey simple meteorological data.

We could conceivably read every Voynich word as a type of weather report in this way.

Of course, the information may not be meteorological, but some other measure or quality of the year and its divisions. 

In any case, this proposal follows from my recent studies: if the text is the year made text, a cosmological language based on the cycles of the year, and if the gallows glyphs mark the quarters, and if the primal vowel glyph is [o] (omicron), then what information does it convey? How can we read it?

R.B.