The Water of Life from the Moon

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Searcher - May I make a suggestion?

If you can, would you add the dates and sources for the pictures so we can get a clearer idea of  possible cause-and-effect.  It would also be the civil thing to do to run a google search and acknowledge the first person(s) to suggest similarities that you repeat in your paper.  If only everyone did that it would save a lot of embarrassment and no-one could possibly suggest you'd just 'lifted it'.

If that alchemical image of the mirrored lion is dated much later than 1438,  it must affect any inferences drawn so again date and source is important for readers to know.  
On the same detail - what marks the Vms picture of the twinned bodies as not of Latin descent is that - quite unlike anything I've ever seen in the Latins' medieval art anyway - each body is drawn to suggest a very different sort of animal from the other.  I identified the style, and suggested that one of the bodies was meant for a lion, and the other probably for a blackbuck doe.

Two identical, but 'mirrored' bodies sharing a single head is not uncommon in Latin heraldic art, and I've been especially intrigued by the profusion of such forms in medieval carving including misericords.  But  from a Latins' point of view the head of one sort of animal shared between two distinctly different bodies seems to have been treated with revulsion because the instances are so very few.  (I say 'very few' - in fact I've yet to see any).

Diane!
First of all, thanks for reading of my blogposts. I agree that info must be added to pictures without fail. I've finished my work with a blog too late at night, and, of course, there are many things to be edited and added. I am sure to do this in the near future.
As for exactly that comparison you mentioned, I used the picture from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (1622), also the same image presents in his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (1618). It is too late for the VMs, but I don't think that it must be ignored and, at least, must be kept in mind. 
You are right, it is very interesting and important to observe causes and effects, not only in the VMs studying. Although those two comparisons with alchemical emblems are far from the main thought of that blogpost about the signs of the lunar cycle in the VMs, they can be a good addition to my main theory. 
While I chose that image for its quite good match, there are similar depictions of the alchemical "conjunction of the opposites" in earlier alchemical manuscripts. Note that they don't mean to be mirrored. For now, the closest ones I found are:
the emblem from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (XV century ? year)

and the emblem from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (1599)

I'm very interested in finding of any earlier examples, even just to find the roots of influences on European alchemical imagery. As I see, some of them came from Egyptian and from Oriental alchemy, therefore I expect to find some. All findings welcome!