AAH: update...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Here is my current tentative list of alphabet-to-astrology equivalences:-

Planet/Sign	EVA (in text)	EVA (in ring)

Sun		o		o
Mercury	l		l
Venus		d		d
Mars		r		r
Moon		a		v
Jupiter		q (or qo)	x
Saturn		k		k

Capricorn	m		m
Aquarius	f		f
Pisces	ee (?)		&169;
Aries		t		t
Taurus	?		r (?)
Gemini	?		&170;
Cancer	dy  (?)		&171;
Leo		y		y
Virgo		ain / an (?)	?
Libra		ch (?)		&172;
Scorpio	ar / air (?)	?
Sagittarius	?		?

Other symbol-pairs (vowel-pairs?) that may have special meaning:-

Sun+Moon	eo
Sun+Mercury	ol
Moon+Mercury al

Notes:-

(1) The whole business of <EVA r>, <EVA s> and the character used here for 
Taurus (which doesn't even have a EVA number) is a bit of a mess. The Mars 
and Taurus characters (on the ring) are quite different, yet here they've 
been transcribed the same. :-(

IMO, there may actually be no difference between <EVA r> and <EVA s> - 
there seem to be numerous instances that lie indeterminately in the space 
between the two. What is their history? Was the distinction between them 
introduced because the entropy seemed too low, or are there passages in the 
VMS where a clear difference seems unambiguously intended?

(2) There's still an unassigned gallows (EVA p), and no obvious assignee star:-
- Gemini, as the previous 6 symbols in the ring are 
gallows/non/gallows/non/gallows/non
- Cancer, as its symbol in the ring is very gallows-like, with three loops
- Sagittarius, as its symbol in the ring is sort-of gallows-like, with 
three loops

(3) Whichever assignment you make for (2), three of { Taurus, Gemini, 
Cancer, Sagittarius } remain unassigned in the main text. Are these the 
three symbol-pairs listed above? Are there any visual or structural hints 
anywhere in the VMS as to how to map these?

(4) If we are somehow meant to read "qoteedy" as "Jupiter [Sun?] Aries 
Pisces Cancer", what kind of interpretation could we put on this?

One intriguing (but probably deeply flawed) idea I had is that the VMS 
could be telling us we should draw lines (in order) between these signs on 
a circular map of the zodiac: and interpret the resulting vector-font shape 
thus produced as if it were a (stylised) letter.

Alternatively, these strings of signs could be some form of indexing or 
numbering system: I'm still looking into this...

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....