29-08-2016, 02:54 PM
(29-08-2016, 02:17 PM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In this case, I agree with Koen and Sam G. that the protruding tongue and association with the 'palm' (which has been misinterpreted here, I think as the "tuft of the tail") is also highly significant. A creature with a spotted hide, round ears and no mane cannot be made a lion because it better suits our personal aesthetic, can it?
Postscript: I feel it would not be honest to omit mentioning that within Leo is an important formation known as the "tuft of the tail". I don't think that reference was part of the original image, but by the time the forms that we now have reached their present form (more than 16 centuries, I'd say after their first enunciation), the last users might have had that in mind.
At the same time, I feel, it is not honest to make a "tuft of a tail" to be a tree or a part, which was drawn later. It is just a mere guesswork to make a certain theory closer. As for me, I can draw a lion easily, but I'm not so sure about an ordinary medieval man. The same story with the Scorpio which looks like a salamander or a lizard, and with the little dragon (or the snail?) near the herb in the herbal section.