10-09-2019, 05:31 AM
(09-09-2019, 06:46 PM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(09-09-2019, 04:32 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I try to call the VMS figure a "feline" most of the time because some people interpret the spots as maybe being a "pard" (leopard) and some feel it should be a lion (Leo) regardless of how the hair is drawn (we don't know if they are intended to be spots).Hi JKP and all!
On my view, there are no spots. There are two kinds of the wavy lines: transverse - depicting the hair in general, and lengthwise - depicting the mane. Of course, the lines all over the Leo's body can also mean stripes. I don't exclude it. But, anyway, as much as I can see, they are exactly lines, not spots.
I made a quick sketch (not a reproduction though) to show how I see the initial picture of Leo without paint.
I see it your way from the face to the end of the mane. It ends at the dark chip on the shoulder down to the widest part of the torso.Then i see it like shingles, more horizontal, not vertical.
It is very reminiscent of the mountain motifs in quires 13 and 14, including being intermittently coloured blue.
That got me thinking stone lion, with sedimentary head and metamorphic body.
which got me to the Sphinx, which has what appears as an alternative head on the body of a lion.
which got me to the age of Leo, it seems that during the age of Leo the Sphinx faced the point where Leo the constellation marked the solstice and the rising of the Nile.
which is interesting because i already think of this zodiac in terms of ages, as opposed to months.