Captain’s Blog 7/4/2022: Happy 4th of July USA 🙂
In honor of 4th of July this post is dedicated to the Klickitat Tribe of Oregon. In Chinook Jargon, the trade language of Native Tribes in Oregon “da hub nah – il ahi” I do this because it makes me feel good – this is my home.
DATA:
Location: near Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Geolocation: 38°0’N/170°0’E
Earth Science: The translation references the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. In the right most pair of flowers there is inscribed, in Chinese characters that mean “Fire Mountains.”
Ocean Currents/Gyre: North Pacific Gyre
Ethnobotany: Elaeis guineensis – cures headache pain, rheumatism, cardiovascular diseases, arterial thrombosis, atherosclerosis, cancer
Historical: in folklore the question mark was said to be created as a device to mark places on maps and such that were unknown. There is only one question mark in MS 408, Folio 45v, first character, line 6.
English Translation:
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Voynicheese:
terora ute tei uia pveieh ver atua ses epuom eiois
etei uer som ula etuei ueh eteier sa || etuoir
jetua ier uiei jelei jelei ua ta ules || ator as
etua jeuta son soi soir va
jelei uem etuor sor ela || vele sei pa || elaloh
? rom uper jetga elaei || alueh
atvier esoi vesa pueh || eler eom
auer ula uei jeteh ra || ra atueh
sver elva eta lveiei || aluers
eruer alua som sueisa
Folio 45v: Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Notes: The translation references the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and the ring is dotted with 75% of all active volcanoes on Earth. In the right most pair of flowers there is inscribed, in Chinese characters that mean “Fire Mountains.”
In MS 408 (Voynich Manuscript) there is a non reoccurring symbol in Folio 45v – the mysterious question mark. First symbol in line 6. In researching the history of the question mark I discovered an interesting old urban myth, though sadly the likelihood of it being true is slim to none. Yet, the myth still exists. Some claim that the question mark was actually created as a device to mark places on maps and such that were unknown, and they got the shape from the shape of a cat’s tail that the cat makes when it is inquisitive. They also go on to state that the exclamation point comes from the shape a cat’s tail makes when they are surprised. These two marks reportedly come from the Egyptians, who worshiped cats.
The English Etymology of the question mark states that in (linguistics) it Marks the following word or phrase as questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason.
The manuscript authors use a surveyor technique called Mete’s and Bounds, it ties together previous boundary corners to the next adjacent map. Also, most of the clues in the Voynich have to deal with folklore and mythology. So, taking into account that the question mark in Folio 45v is a Mete’s and Bounds boundary Marker and that the question mark in English marks the following word of phrase the flower at the end of this sentence would be the Mete’s and Bounds Marker point. In surveying this is called the “thence”. Thence along said property line means the property line was previously mentioned in the description, now Folio 45v is saying 6th property line of the East parcel, so the property would follow that line to Folio 46v.
This property line is very important as it’s location is vital in entering the Columbia River Bar in Oregon, USA.
In the last paragraph of Folio 45v it refers to this mark as the 11th position. This location today is still called the 11th position in standard time zones. Which is fascinating, since the science of time zones wasn’t standardized until recent times. However, the science behind the time zone exists in the Catalan Atlas and consistently used throughout MS 408 (Voynich.)
Go to Folio 46r
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