Aries Design: Truly Aries, or actually based on Capricorn?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Here are all of the new examples of aries either on a rocky slope / reaching up to highground / climbing and eating a tree: One thing is becoming increasingly clear: this tradition is almost non-existent for Aries, but relatively common for capricorn. This applies across centuries, and even whether or not it's fully a goat.

That is not an artistic tradition.  It is one of the characteristic differences between goat and sheep.  I leaned just last month that

• Goats will stand on the hind legs to reach leaves and branches.  Sheep will not.
  
• Goats have a prehensile tongue that they can extend out to grab bush leaves. Sheep can't do that.
  

So the pictures of Capricorn doing these things, and Ares mt doing them, are merely good realistic drawings.  Although the artist may have been a city boy who did not know those differences, but just happened to copy their Capricorn and Aries from a correct drawing.

All the best, --stolfi