Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

[rikforto]

Oh, slightly different connotation of "status" here! Someone suggested that the beast might somehow represent the universe with nebulae representing the boundary of the universe. I think for that to be the case, we'd want to interpret the nymphs the same way, the same "status" as a cosmological drawing. But if they are apparitions from heaven (or whatever), they would have the same "not from here status", but have different "statuses", meaning different "station", in heaven (or whatever). In fact, I'd expect the beast to have a lower station lower for being literally lower on the page, though that is probably pushing past what we can discern here without more context.