Re: VMs: Map + astrological + legs + cipher hypothesis...?

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

*WoW*

I smell something like Pizza cooking!  You have almost described what
I cannot about the multiple tables/possibility's etc here. 
 ps It's simpler than you think :-)  (said ES) 

Jeff is right about the 9 rosette (see 3 3 9) 

You ALL are getting it surrounded now - COOL :-)


best to you & yours
-=se=-
steve (fold it / Flip (Rotate) IT) ekwall

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 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:18:43 +0100
 From: Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: VMs: Map + astrological + legs + cipher hypothesis...?
 
 Hi everyone,
 
 Here's a fairly bizarre (but actually quite sensible) hypothesis which 
 might link together many of the parts of the VMS into a single 
 cryptographic entity: hopefully it can be tested...
 
 If the 9-rosette map page is an encrypted diagram of the "folding key" 
 encoding/decoding apparatus, where did the author hide the 8 rotation keys 
 that would go on it? It's possible that they're encrypted in extremely 
 subtle ways on the same page, but maybe we can do better...
 
 Each hidden rotation key (basically, a rotatable monoalphabetic cipher) 
 would need to contain roughly 30 characters (for an alphabet plus a few 
 additional symbols, like "&"): and might well look like a volvelle... all 
 of which sounds an awful lot like the astrological section. In fact, 
 exactly eight of the astrological volvelles contain 30 symbols (the other 
 two are split into two), which is interesting...
 
 But wait - having done everything else, I don't believe our author is so 
 stupid as to simply make these keys simply visible to us (at the front or 
 end of every astrological label)... he's going to make us work a little 
 harder to find them, damn him.
 
 So, my further hypothesis is that the leg positions of the nymphs (or arm 
 positions) indicate where in the attached label the key is located 
 (probably front or back of the string... though this wlll take a bit of 
 working out just yet). This would explain why the labels are so short, why 
 the nymphs are posed, and how the volvelles link up with the map page.
 
 Interesting? :-)
 
 Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
 
 
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