This current misadventure in speculative Voynichese is founded upon such observations and conclusions as:
*The text is not linguistic. It is best described as quasi-linguistic.
*The text is cosmological in nature and based on the cycles of the year.
*The text is constructed, systematic, and the gallows glyphs must be central to understanding the system.
*The four gallows glyphs represent the quarters of the year: solstices and equinoxes.
*The bedrock text is a continuous sequence of [o] glyphs. The omicron is primal.
*The glyphs have been selected for purpose based largely on their graphic properties rather than any preexisting linguistic uses.
*The text is generated by a process of division. Divide, and divide again.
*There is a distinction between short and tall glyphs, marked as (Latinate) vowels and consonants, that run in alternation.
*The stop/start cycle of the sun (solstices) provides the foundation binary cycle of the text.
*The short glyphs (vowels) are all derived from (divisions of) the omicron [o] displaying arithmetic (implicitly geometric) divisions.
*The consonants (tall glyphs) are all derived from the gallows glyphs and, like them, concern the quarters of the year.
*Vowels (short glyphs) cluster but consonants (tall glyphs do not.)
*(Very non-linguistic) strings and clusters of vowels (short glyphs) – [eeoee] - require an explanation.
Given all of this, how might such a text actually work?
To start with, here is a dummy scheme to explore the possibilities.
It is simple: using the gallows glyphs as markers, we can arrange Voynich words such that the vowel (short word) clusters contain information about the SEASONS.
The model is restricted to words that contain a gallows glyph and, for the time being, we avoid words with benched gallows.
Otherwise, we can plot and demonstrate any Voynich word according to this simple system.
The question is: how might a generated cosmological text be meaningful and contain information?
Another assumption: it needs to be fairly easy to read and understand. It is easy to extract the information.
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In the system being explored here the following glyphs are all counted as variants (divisions) of [o], which is the primal glyph.
o e ee ch sh a iii y
These are all characterized by being short in stature: they do not extend above the headline of the text.
The exception to this is [sh] which is a [ch] with a cap.
The glyph [ch] is an [ee] with a joining ligature.
The glyph [y] is an [o] with a tail that extends below the baseline.
The glyph [e] is half the [o] and [ee] represents the [o] bifurcated.
The configurations featuring [a] and a series of [iii] glyphs are taken as depicting the further divisions of the original omicron.
These glyphs cluster. They tend to gather into sequences or clusters.
This is in contrast to the taller glyphs such as the gallows. These do not cluster.
The exception is the glyph [l]. This is a short glyph and clusters but it counts in the company of [d] and the tall glyphs. We allow it to double with tall glyphs.
(Note: [sh] is the tall glyph among the short ones and [l] is the short glyph among the tall ones.)
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Typically, in Voynich words, we find configurations where clusters of the short glyphs ([o] variants) are placed between (are framed by) two tall glyphs:
My proposal is that these are all divisions of the [o] glyph, the original omicron. They can therefore be reduced to an omicron [o].
[keed] is [k-o-d] and [daiin] is [d-o-n].
That is, we consider all clusters of the short glyphs to constitute a single [o] glyph, even where there are multiple [o] glyphs in the configuration.
At the base level neither tall nor short glyphs cluster or multiply. In fact, [o] divides, and divides again.
The original text is: ototototo
The [o] glyphs divide.
Thus [ee] is a division of [o].
So too is [eeo] and [eo] and [ey] and every other collection of these short glyphs, including strings of multiple glyphs.
These glyphs appear as:
1. Single glyphs: [o], [a], [e], [y], [i], [ch], etc.
2. Two glyphs, either a double glyph, or a combination of two: [ee], [eo], [ey] etc.
3. Three glyphs: [eey], [eeo], [eee], [cheo], [aii] etc.
4. Four or more, rarely. [eeeo]
That is to say, the original omicron can be divided into 2, 3 or 4 (or more) parts.
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Examples
R.B.
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