Re: VMs: Meaning of the VMs Zodiac labels

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Pam,

> If you would like to follow up on the possibility
> that
> the labels are star names, you might want to try
> loading in the names of the four hundred stars of
> highest magnitude on that site Nick named.  Then you
> could see if any of those matched the Voynich
> labels.

I'd approach it from the Voynich MS word structure.
Are zodiac labels also words that occur in the main
flow of the text? Do they follow the word paradigms 
more consistently, or less, or equally?

It is already interesting that these label words
do not follow Zipf's law, in the same manner that
a word list (Thesaurus) does not.

Also, some word patterns are dependent on the
zodiac 'region'. Words starting with the Eva
sequence "oeeo" are very unusual in general,
but are found relatively frequently as labels
in Libra and Virgo.

To me, all this is a sign of 'meaning'. If the MS
is a hoax, it is a very clever one. Nothing to do
with moving pieces of paper with holes in it
over tables of word fragments ....

> Now, that little project seems pretty
> labor-intensive
> and you probably already have a lot on your plate. 
> You may easily have over a thousand names; some
> stars
> have as high as fifteen names listed.  I don't think
> it makes too much sense to track down the star names
> unless we feel very sure there is nothing else the
> labels may indicate.

If I were paid to investigate the Voynich MS, I'd
be looking at the zodiac labels before anything else,
and by the approach I indicated above.

> Is there any way we can track repetition per ordinal
> character on the labels?  I mean, like, how large
> the group of first characters:
> 
> Are there only seven different first characters? 
> twelve?  or thirty combinations of first and second
> characters?  
> 
> List the first characters found.  If pertinent, list
> the first and second characters found.
> 
> Etc., the same with the second, third, fourth, fifth
> characters, and so on.
> 
> This might suggest references to planets, signs, or
> degrees of the Zodiac (longitude) within the labels.

You're getting the idea :-)

We are not short of options. People who say that
'everything has been tried' just don't know what
they're talking about.

Cheers, Rene


		
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