08-03-2016, 11:05 PM
(08-03-2016, 10:42 PM)Oocephalus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The right part of the root on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. also looks a bit like an elephant (I'm not the first to see this), but much less accurate than that leaf. It looks more like the European medieval drawings than a real elephant. I can think of the following explanations for that discrepancy:
- The drawings were made by different artists
- They were copied from different sources
- The artist based them on different pictures of elephants, maybe not recognizing that they were supposed to depict the same animal
- The animal in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is not an elephant (but what else could it be?)
The root does look more like an elephant than anything else, but since it's only a suggested animal rather than a literal one, it could be other things. Wild boars were sometimes represented in roots, sometimes because it was a root that boars liked to eat, sometimes because they could help you hunt a boar, sometimes because they could help heal boar injuries (boars are intelligent aggressive animals).