Based on looking at a lot of these, I *think* she's sitting (maybe 85% sure, but certainly not 100%).
She looks androgynous to me too. This was not unusual for Virgo. I really don't know if she's meant to be male, female or both.
I need to sleep, but I'll check the tongues for you before I go, back in a few...
Okay... the tongues are almost always squared-off or bulbous (usually bulbous).
She looks androgynous to me too. This was not unusual for Virgo. I really don't know if she's meant to be male, female or both.
I need to sleep, but I'll check the tongues for you before I go, back in a few...
Okay... the tongues are almost always squared-off or bulbous (usually bulbous).
- There is a demon-like Leo in MS Rawl. D. 939 with a pointy tongue. Unlike the VMS, it has claws.
- The end is a bit faded, but the tongue on AN IV 18 Claudii Caesaris (Switzerland) appears to be sharp. It also has claws and a long mane.
- The tongue on Walters W.37 Hours (Flanders?) is small and hard to see but looks like it's sharp. It's worth a look-see because it has no claws, a tail that curls through the legs, and is painted blue (not the most common color for Leo). It also has crayfish Cancer and no-hand Libra.
- The tongue is sharp on Walters W.734, the crazy Hyginus with the horselike Aries and Taurus. Leo is also rather horselike, but has long claws.
- The Egyptian coffin of Soter might be a sharp tongue, but maybe it's blunt.
- ÖSB Cod. 387 is a brush-stroke tongue, so it's sharp.
- Hausbuch MD2 (zodiac wheel) is barely more than a line, so it's sharp but perhaps not intentionally so, the space is limited.