Well, the sun personified as female and the moon as male may have something
to do with long curly golden hair and black straight hair. Yes, I know it's not
gender specific, but who knows what motivated the author of the VMS. I think it
would be interesting to see a psychological profile report on the mysterious
scribe.
,Dana Scott
----- Original Message -----From: Ted YoungSent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:41 PMSubject: VMs: The Sun, The Moon and The StarsWow, this manuscript really does tease you. I decided to sit down tonight
and compare vocabulary used around pictures of the sun and the moon. The
idea was that they would have used the words SUN and MOON repeatedly (in
what ever language it may be in). But, as you would expect, there were no
repeating words. Here is what I worked with in EVA using best guess
transcription.
SUN
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yky.dary.chkchykoly f68r1
okey.okoaiin.okol.oky.oeeeo.r.ekey.okchol.cheo.o.koiin f68r2
otchsy.ol.shy.oteo.sal.ol.keey.oteol.choky.otchoshy f70r2
MOON
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oky.okchdy.okardy.***sar.olgy f68r1
okeo.okor.oko.okemy.okaisy.qokool.cheo.qo*ol f68r2
otchody.chokchy.okol.cheol.dal.cho.keol.dolaiin.okeol.oly f68r3
With basic review I could not find any correlations. Of course, there are
many encryption and ciphering schemes that would hide repeated words.
Funny, huh? One of the strangest features of this text is repetition of
words up to five times. Yet, you cannot find repetition when you want it.
One thing to note: the sun is personified as a woman, and the moon is
personified as a man. What religions considered the sun female and the moon
male? Most of the mythology I can remember identifies the sun as male.
For what it is worth, I also compiled a list of the names of the stars. At
first glance, there is nothing too spectacular here. Though, when sorted
alphabetically, you notice that many of them have very similar names. There
is even an instance of two stars with the same name on the same page.
I find it odd that the names of these stars are so short. Perhaps this is
further evidence of abbreviations. European cultures name their stars and
organized them into constellations. Are there any cultures that used a
different identification system (maybe numbers)?
acphy f68r3.X.7;H
chdy.oky f68r3.X.8;H
cheorol f68r2.S.1;H
chocphy f68r1.S.1;H
chodar f68r2.S.22;H
cholar f68r2.S.11;H
cphocthy f68r1.S.2;H
darall f68r3.X.9;H
dcheoldy f68r2.S.13;H
dchol f68r2.S.5;H
dcholdal f68r3.X.3;H
doaro f68r3.X.1;H
dolchedy f68r1.S.3;H
oalcheol f68r3.X.2;H
ochory f68r2.S.3;H
ockhy f68r1.S.4;H
ocphy f68r1.S.5;H
octhey f68r1.S.6;H
octhyd f68r3.X.10;H
odaiin f68r2.S.2;H
odair.chol f68r2.S.18;H
odchecthy f68r1.S.8;H
ofcheody f68r2.S.16;V
ofcheor f68r1.S.9;H
oiinar f68r1.S.10;H
okcheody f68r2.S.12;H
okchoda f68r3.X.11;H
okchor f68r2.S.8;H
okeechor f68r2.S.24;H
okeeodal f68r1.S.12;H
okeor f68r1.S.11;H
okoaly f68r1.S.13;H
okodaly f68r1.S.20;H
okolchy f68r3.X.6;H
okoldy f68r1.S.14;H
okos f68r3.X.5;H
okshor f68r1.S.15;H
olcheesey f68r2.S.7;H
olor f68r1.S.16;H
opocphor f68r2.S.20;H
ordaiin f68r1.S.17;H
otcheodar f68r2.S.17;H
otcheody f68r1.S.7;H
otcsey f68r1.S.23;H
oteeeor f68r2.S.14;H
oteool f68r2.S.9;H
otochedy f68r1.S.19;H
otoeeo f68r2.S.15;R
otol f68r1.S.21;H
otolchcthy f68r2.S.0;H
otor f68r1.S.22;H
otory f68r3.X.4;H
otoshol f68r2.S.21;H
otydm f68r3.X.12;H
otydy f68r1.S.24;H
otykchs f68r1.S.25;H
otys f68r1.S.26;H
oydchy f68r2.S.10;H
shchy f68r2.S.23;H
shdar f68r2.S.4;H
todaraiily f68r2.S.6;H
toeeodcthy f68r1.S.27;H
ykchdy f68r1.S.28;H
ytchody f68r1.S.18;H
ytchody f68r1.S.29;V
So, I really did not come up with anything. But, I will post this to the
list in case it gives someone else an idea, or perhaps someone will see a
pattern I am missing.
Ted Young
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