Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

• that whoever drew the zodiac symbols either had traveled in northeast France or had seen some manuscripts from that general area (and probably consulted more than one source) and had probably had access to a library (which may have included books from the previous centuries), and who possibly traveled
  

For a moment I had some doubts that they had access to a library because they seem to have no idea what a scorpion looked like. Perhaps this could be true for people from the British Isles but hardly if they also had a library. Consider this: they seem to be quite familiar with western zodiacal drawings when it comes to fish and scales, so what's all this scorpion nonsense about?



Their scorpion looks more like a four-legged dinosaur than a scorpion. I saw a funny-looking scorpion depiction from northern Europe but nothing like this. I'd be willing to bet that you couldn't find a VMS scorpion anywhere in all of medieval literature and I think I know why.

I'm guessing that native Americans were afraid of scorpions so it made little sense to scare them if you wished to convert them to your religion.

Similarly, the Centaur of Sagittarius had to be changed into a two-legged archer because native Americans would never believe that a creature like the Centaur could exist.

As I have been saying lately: the VMS was very likely a missionary's handbook.

Any thoughts on this?