It's the ongoing contest between appearance and identity. It's the Elephant Problem.
Here are 143 images of elephants.
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And here are another 83 images with a few duplications.
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Many variations of appearance. No variation of identity. No matter how it looks, it's a generic elephant.
The basic criteria for the VMs Sagittarius comparison are simply that it is a human crossbowman and not the more typical centaur with a bow and arrow. That distinction leads to several historical comparisons.
The VMs artist has been shown to be a practitioner of visual trickery and anyone can make a mistake.
The bulls' horns of VMs Taurus are lyre-shaped, tall and vertical, with long upper tips. The minimalistic pizzles are anatomically misplaced, according to "genital confusion". But it's right where a *heraldic* pizzle is supposed to be. Too far back for a bull; too far forward (?) for a lion. The horns are also very similar to heraldic examples. So. there are two independent elements here that seem to reveal new heraldic influences in VMs artistry.
Here are 143 images of elephants.
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And here are another 83 images with a few duplications.
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Many variations of appearance. No variation of identity. No matter how it looks, it's a generic elephant.
The basic criteria for the VMs Sagittarius comparison are simply that it is a human crossbowman and not the more typical centaur with a bow and arrow. That distinction leads to several historical comparisons.
The VMs artist has been shown to be a practitioner of visual trickery and anyone can make a mistake.
The bulls' horns of VMs Taurus are lyre-shaped, tall and vertical, with long upper tips. The minimalistic pizzles are anatomically misplaced, according to "genital confusion". But it's right where a *heraldic* pizzle is supposed to be. Too far back for a bull; too far forward (?) for a lion. The horns are also very similar to heraldic examples. So. there are two independent elements here that seem to reveal new heraldic influences in VMs artistry.