R. Sale > 11-08-2019, 12:33 AM
There are different ways to depict the lamb, depending on the event that was being illustrated. Some examples are clearly intended to represent a live animal and some show an image 'post sacrifice'. And it's not entirely clear which state applies to the VMs critter of f80v. Therefore we have some ambiguity. Just as we have had some ambiguity as to whether the animal was intended to be a lamb or sheep in the first place, rather than something else.
IMO, it's not about specifically identifying the animal according to any particular criteria of appearance. All that is necessary is that a lamb or sheep is one of the possible interpretations. The match with the image from the 'Apocalypse of s. Jean" of 1313 is based on the combined presence of three separate elements.
1.) the lamb or sheep itself
2.) the cosmic boundary, either a vesica piscis, a cloud band (nebuly line), or a vesica piscis and cloud band combination
3.) the droplets of blood (in the 1313 Apocalypse) =? ambiguous droplets (VMs)
The lamb is on one side of the cosmic boundary and the droplets are on the other. Similarities of appearance are not the primary factor. Anything ambiguous will work, as long as it is not completely contradictory. What matters is the structure that was represented. And so far only the 1313 Apocalypse and the VMs critter of You are not allowed to view links.
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