encryption versus wool
R. Sale > 10-11-2017, 09:18 PM
Despite the flurry of recent publications, the same old questions remain. Does the VMs possess any comprehensible, ideological content? Does it make any sense? If so, how has that content been transmitted? And, given that content has been so difficult to discover, how can meaningful content be found and interpreted? For more than a century, the VMs has remained an enigma. This will not change, – because the VMs was created to be an enigma. The VMs purports to represent the ‘reality’ of an unknown time and place and a most curious culture, but this is a fictional reality, something that was never existent. The whole appearance of a foreign cultural reality is a deception. It’s a job well done – something that would have been incontestable in the late medieval era. The manuscript clearly presents as a fairly normal book from an strange and abnormal source, but it is the opposite. It is an enigma.
What is it that has so long delayed the discovery of comprehensible, ideological content in the VMs? Let’s consider the possible use of encryption. Here it appears we will find that the state of sophistication was not advanced very far and that any recoverable methodology appropriate to the dates of the VMs C-14 chronology would be easy to discover. Even if we expand the field to include proposed, natural language translations and all the other linguistic efforts regarding the VMs, there are only a few things of potential significance to be seen. There is only enough statistical data to indicate a fair probability that dismissing the written text as meaningless could well be a mistake.
Now let’s consider the use of wool. Wool comes from the old saying, ‘to pull the wool over someone’s eyes,’ meaning to trick, to deceive or bamboozle etc. It’s an idiomatic expression. The first thing to say about wool pulling is this. So long as we do not see the wool, the wool is working.
If we cannot see the ideological possibility of reconstructing Oresme’s cosmos from VMs parts, then the wool is working. Of course, we first must be familiar with the illustration of Oresme’s cosmos and we also need to find the VMs parts and evaluate their compatibility.
If we cannot see the pairing paradigm established and validated at the start of the VMs Zodiac, and borrowing a relevant law from Deuteronomy, then the wool is working. The pairing paradigm actually has a certain extra quality of strength to it because it requires both parts of the pairing to be present in the VMs. In other words, an internal to internal combination. This contrasts with other paradigms which have one part in the VMs and the corresponding part in some other, outside source, either known or even unknown. IOW, an internal to external matching.
If we cannot see pairing and heraldry in the tub patterns of VMs Pisces and Aries, then the wool is working well. Pay close attention to the heraldic furs.
If we cannot find the optical illusion on VMs White Aries that presents a dualistic interpretation of the direction of orientation for the two blue-striped patterns, then the wool is still working wonderfully. Without radial influences, they become a pair.
If we do not know the history of the origin of the tradition of the red galero in the ecclesiastical heraldry of the Roman Catholic Church and we miss the traditional, objective, positional confirmations in the VMs illustrations, then guess what?
If we do not know the name, definition or appearance of some obscure heraldic fur omitted in many current references, then heraldic canting is simply impossible, (We have no idea what we don’t know.) and the wool is really working big time. The pun is a combination of pattern, language and placement.
If we want to find understandable, ideological content in the VMs, then we need to possess the relevant, traditional information and the necessary historical facts to get beyond the wool. The wool has been intentionally used to create obfuscation, but the underlying reality, even though appearance may be ambiguous, is not contradicted. The stripes are blue. And further confirmation is achieved through an objective determination of the standard, traditional placement of the relevant elements, given hierarchical, heraldic and other appropriate considerations.
The connection of a blue-striped tub pattern and the inner example of Stolfi’s marker is not ambiguous. However, it is the second, paired example of this type of marker that designates an unusual segment of text, one that is unique in all the VMs Zodiac for the number of word repetitions. There are triple and double word repetitions in this segment.
From the patterned marker (Outer ring of VMs White Aries):
olkeeody okody okchedy oky eey okeodar okeoky oteody oto otol oteey ar ykooar aiin aekeeey okeo keo keody okeodar chy s aiin oto keoar or ar al otol al shckhey oteeeodar oteody otol aiin shoekey sal al ald cheeokseo q!orky choly
[This is my retyping of the transcription from voynich.nu.]
In the text segment, ‘okeodar’ is used twice, ‘oteody’ is used twice; ‘oto’ and ‘ar’ are both used twice, ‘otol’, ‘aiin’ and ‘al’ are each used three times. Seven different words are repeated in this circular band of text. So this gives a couple potential patterns based on the number of repetitions and on the sequence. And there is the particular sequence, ‘al otol al’, which is the same construction as ‘day after day’ or anything similar. Could such a text be instructive or religious?
The internal to external comparison clearly is more difficult when a candidate for comparison has not been discovered. But there are degrees of difficulty for this discovery based on the nature of the paradigm. The pairing paradigm must also apply to any proposed external text as a comparative candidate. The prime comparative characteristic is based on internal content, not on peripheral form. Thus the evidence needed to substantiate the paradigm will be much more definitive and easily spotted – distinctive in a way where non-contenders are easily identified to narrow the possibilities – if there were any.
But first, let’s take the wool from our eyes. This is comprehensible, ideological content in the VMs. This is standard, traditional and historical information, derived from appropriate medieval sources, and it interprets the VMs content as containing paradigm elements that are compatible with certain historical facts and persons dating to an event in 1251 CE and is also related to the origins of a current heraldic tradition. This establishes historical grounding past and present. The presence of the necessary elements is not accidental or fictitious. Of course, it is obscure to us, it is intended to be hidden from those who would have known it best as a part of their own world. It is hidden; it is intentionally obfuscated; it is disguised by an illusion. Just take the wool off and there it is – comprehensible, historically validated content.