VMs: Re: The VMS "alphabet" and some other issues...

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry wrote:

> 1) A few words are in plain alpha substitution (Or something like it).
> These words do not fit the "alpha order" sequence at all.  See the word
> for Aldebaran (d ch o l d a r) on f68r3. I have been able to find at
> least 3 star names appropriate to the picture using this method so far
> (d=al ch = de o=b l=r d=al a=a r=n and e=c).  However, most of the other
> words come out garbage.  However, there are very few Voynich rules which
> fall out of the rule.  Perhaps those words actually numbers...

Two more bits of evidence:

I decided to look for the name Brahe on f67v1, using those
letter values you give above. That would be EVA <ola_ _>

The first word of the short line (four letters/five letters) to the left of
the head
fits with <olar>.  So <r>, besides having a number value of 2,  may also
represent
h.

I also applied the above to the word beside the Pleaides; EVA <doaro>. This
is al-bahb. The closest word in Star Names is "Baba", the Russian name,
meaning
"Old Wife".

Robert

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