17-11-2025, 12:55 PM
This elephant eye is perplexing. Why would someone put an O letter on a root? What could it mean?
By the way, in the middle ages people really struggled with elephant pictures. See for example:
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They knew that such animal exists because it is mentioned in the Bible and included it in most bestiaries. Yet the pictures were often
very fanciful.
And speaking of mandrakes, as most people know here, they were mostly presented in a different way, with roots depicted as man figure:
![[Image: dsc1854.jpg?fit=208%2C300&ssl=1]](https://i0.wp.com/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dsc1854.jpg?fit=208%2C300&ssl=1)
By the way, in the middle ages people really struggled with elephant pictures. See for example:
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They knew that such animal exists because it is mentioned in the Bible and included it in most bestiaries. Yet the pictures were often
very fanciful.
And speaking of mandrakes, as most people know here, they were mostly presented in a different way, with roots depicted as man figure: