What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs?
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This is not zodiac imagery, it's from the Aberdeen bestiary (c. 1200), but since blue spotted cats are uncommon, I thought it might be of interest.

The cat on the left is a tiger, the one on the right, a leopard (pardo):

         


Also, vis-vis the long-horned VMS bull, to give an idea of how people around 1200 in the British Isles depicted the Ibex, also from the bestiary, here is a dive-bombing Ibex with claws on the front and hoofs on the back, with straight horns. I'm assuming it's drawn this way because they are likening it to a mountain goat, an animal with which they are more familiar:

   
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RE: What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs? - by -JKP- - 09-12-2017, 12:22 PM

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