Celestial faces

[Koen G]

Yeah that's what I meant about older sources. They are still pretty close to the Roman era and its iconographic successors like the Carolingians. So you go from Sol and Luna as pagan deities to sun and moon as full body personifications. The next step is to have them kind of enclosed within the celestial body. And then there's just the face.

There might actually be an unbroken connection between Roman deities and modern people/children drawing a face on the Sun or moon.

Now where along that path does the VM with its hybrid forms come in?