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It's been a long since I last did anything Cicada-related. Had no time for that since November, probably won't have a lot of time starting next week too.
One of the ways to go about decrypting is trying to figure out a key pattern via "cribbing": trying to make an educated guess about what some portion of cleartext could be. Many of the cribs are my own, most though are found through searching the community archives. I don't attribute cribs because it's never easy to know whose original idea a crib was. If you want your crib attributed or removed, please let me know.
On page #72 (#55), LP sentence #174, there are these runes: "ᚹᚱ ᛒᛠᚠᛉᛁᛗᚢᚳᛈᚻᛝᛚᛇ" ("wr beafximucphngleo"). It is widely speculated that these can mean "the circumference", because it's the only (?) combination of runes with a fitting length.
It must be pointed out that the 35dots_2 section consists of 2 pages and 64 words apart from the red title. This section also doesn't have any punctuation marks, so there's a theory that this section is, in fact, a list of words. My own understanding is that the "low doublets" could as well not apply to this section.
Cribbed key sequence is as follows:
w 7 (! 5 c / 24 a) => th 2 r 4 (! 15 s / 14 x) => e 18 b 17 (! 12 eo / 17 b) => c 5 ea 28 (! 18 e / 11 j) => i 10 f 0 (! 25 ae / 4 r) => r 4 x 14 (! 9 n / 20 l) => c 5 i 10 (! 9 n / 20 l) => u 1 m 19 (! 0 f / 0 f) => m 19 u 1 (! 1 u / 28 ea) => f 0 c 5 (! 16 t / 13 p) => e 18 p 13 (! 9 n / 20 l) => r 4 h 8 (! 19 m / 10 i) => e 18 ng 21 (! 12 eo / 17 b) => n 9 l 20 (! 15 s / 14 x) => c 5 eo 12 (! 23 d / 6 g) => e 18
If this prominent phrase - the circumference - has a place here, then could this section be a kind of a glossary? In fact...
...could the red header of this section just read "a glossary"?
On page #71 (#54), LP sentence #173, the red header is "ᚪ ᛗᛝᛞᛡᚦᛉᛁᛗ" ("a mngdiothxim"). It is understood that the rune "a" is, coincindentally perhaps, translated to an actual "a". (This is not 100%: could be a weird instance of "o", or it could be an "I", but I think we can neglect these possibilities).
The nature of this section was described before, so there were a lot of variants of the header crib proposed, such as:
Cribbed sequence for "a glossary":
a 24 (! 0 f / 0 f) => a 24 m 19 (! 13 p / 16 t) => g 6 ng 21 (! 1 u / 28 ea) => l 20 d 23 (! 20 l / 9 n) => o 3 io 27 (! 12 eo / 17 b) => s 15 th 2 (! 16 t / 13 p) => s 15 x 14 (! 19 m / 10 i) => a 24 i 10 (! 6 g / 23 d) => r 4 m 19 (! 22 oe / 7 w) => y 26
On page #60 (#43), LP sentence #142, the first line contains a closing quotation mark. This quotation mark, in fact, ends a sequence of two consecutive quotation, which could be interpreted as a dialogue (perhaps, between the Master and the Pilgrim)?
After this quotation mark, at the beginning of the second line of the page, there are words "ᚠᚢ ᛉᚠᚫᛞᚠᛡᛄᚾ" ("fu xfaedfiojn"). I suspect that the only phrase which fits into this situation is "he answered". I think, it's either an exchange where a Pilgrim asked something from the Master, and he replied - or vice versa.
Cribbed sequence for "he answered":
f 0 (! 21 ng / 8 h) => h 8 u 1 (! 12 eo / 17 b) => e 18 x 14 (! 19 m / 10 i) => a 24 f 0 (! 20 l / 9 n) => n 9 ae 25 (! 10 i / 19 m) => s 15 d 23 (! 16 t / 13 p) => w 7 f 0 (! 11 j / 18 e) => e 18 io 27 (! 23 d / 6 g) => r 4 j 11 (! 22 oe / 7 w) => e 18 n 9 (! 15 s / 14 x) => d 23
This one I think I can safely attribute to Fib.
On page #32 (#15), LP sentence #55, there's this title to the fibprime spiral table: "ᚠᚢᛚᛗ ᚪᛠᚤᛟᚪ" ("fulm aeayoea").
It could mean a lot, but there surfaced an idea that it could mean "keep prime" or "make prime" or something like that, which make sense considering the table below this title actually has a lot to do with primes.
(You can read more on this table on Wiki, or in this article by me)
Cribbed sequence for "keep prime":
f 0 (! 24 a / 5 c) => c 5 u 1 (! 12 eo / 17 b) => e 18 l 20 (! 2 th / 27 io) => e 18 m 19 (! 6 g / 23 d) => p 13 a 24 (! 11 j / 18 e) => p 13 ea 28 (! 24 a / 5 c) => r 4 y 26 (! 16 t / 13 p) => i 10 oe 22 (! 3 o / 26 y) => m 19 a 24 (! 6 g / 23 d) => e 18
I will add more cribs as time goes and I remember or find something.
I heard this one from V1cWra1th.
On page #66 (#49), the two final words preceding the sexagesimal table, are these: "ᚪᚤ ᛟᛇᚹᛄᛈᛞ" ("ay oeeowjpd"). It actually makes huge sense if they meant "to binary", because the next data dump consists of 256 bytes that could be converted to values 0-255.
Cribbed sequence for "to binary":
a 24 (! 8 h / 21 ng) => t 16 y 26 (! 23 d / 6 g) => o 3 oe 22 (! 5 c / 24 a) => b 17 eo 12 (! 2 th / 27 io) => i 10 w 7 (! 27 io / 2 th) => n 9 j 11 (! 16 t / 13 p) => a 24 p 13 (! 9 n / 20 l) => r 4 d 23 (! 26 y / 3 o) => y 26
This could also be "as binary". But, as a downside, I as of now fail to find appropriate words that could precede this phrase.