Note that there is also an o-eye in the root of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which shows that this was an option for the VM artist.
I don't know much about the mandrake story yet, I was finding out about it in real time
Rafal: seeing this root as some kind of mandrake reference was not my idea, it's been suggested before. This is surely the closest thing to the traditional mandrake shape we have in the VM.
Here's an elephant head above wavy water and facing the dragon from the mandrake story (Bestiary, 1236 -c. 1250, British Library, Harley 3244 f. 39v)
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I don't know much about the mandrake story yet, I was finding out about it in real time
Rafal: seeing this root as some kind of mandrake reference was not my idea, it's been suggested before. This is surely the closest thing to the traditional mandrake shape we have in the VM.
Here's an elephant head above wavy water and facing the dragon from the mandrake story (Bestiary, 1236 -c. 1250, British Library, Harley 3244 f. 39v)