Parallels for Moon/Sun/... faces

[davidjackson]

Interesting. I initially assumed your image was a depiction of God helping in battle, but it appears to be suggestions for the use of weapons in war - in this case, using a reflective shield to dazzle your opponents with the reflection of the sun in hand to hand combat. Not really cricket in my opinion, but hey

If we're still looking for anthropomorphic suns, sun dials are a good place to look - it also fits into my theory that the scribes were influenced by their cultural surroundings outside of the manuscript tradition. See, ie the Scottish manuscript Liber Physiognomiae,:

(from another angle)

Ms Lat 696 W.8.20 fol.1r Sundial calendar, from 'Liber Physiognomiae', c.1440 (vellum)
A manuscript, sun dial and volvelle, all in one! The original book is 14th century but these images are from the first 1440 printed version.
Some of the horoscope imagery have similarities to the VM, such as the interlinked fish, or the cancer crayfish.