09-03-2016, 08:56 AM
JKP: I also enjoy these kinds of illustrations. Some of them also have a big problem with insects - drawing them more like miniature mammals.
Also the "out in the open" animals in the VM are rather crappy - I mean the ones at the pool. That makes this elephant leaf all the more fascinating.
Diane, If it is any type of Indian elephant, the plant probably stands for its dress, and not the elephant itself.
If we take it as representing the actual animal, which I do, it must be an African species - the plant matches the texture of the trunk, the size and shape of the ears, the curve of the head, even the fraying of the ears. Compared to the Voynich plant and African elephants, the Indian elephant is a totally different creature.
Why not the North African elephant, that went extinct around 100 AD? It lived along large parts of the African Red Sea shore.
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Also the "out in the open" animals in the VM are rather crappy - I mean the ones at the pool. That makes this elephant leaf all the more fascinating.
Diane, If it is any type of Indian elephant, the plant probably stands for its dress, and not the elephant itself.
If we take it as representing the actual animal, which I do, it must be an African species - the plant matches the texture of the trunk, the size and shape of the ears, the curve of the head, even the fraying of the ears. Compared to the Voynich plant and African elephants, the Indian elephant is a totally different creature.
Why not the North African elephant, that went extinct around 100 AD? It lived along large parts of the African Red Sea shore.
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