Well, I had a quick look to see if any other crypro-heraldic creatures were hidden amongst the plants. The only new suggestions I could find were a kind of elephant thing on f55v, and four stag beetles on f51r. (And of course on f39r there is the jellyfish rampant from the coat of arms of Sir Coward de Custard.)
Jon.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Pelling [mailto:incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> Hi everyone,
>
> At 07:51 29/06/2004 -0700, Dana wrote:
> >I can probably track down the heraldry sites again. While I
> see the stallion
> >features referred to in f34v, I might offer another
> suggestion for their
> >"joined heads", with hole in the middle and hair above. This
> reminds me of
> >the human female genitalia. The same might apply to f34r.
> Maybe the root
> >structures in f34v represent a marriage of male and female?
>
> This is, of course, exactly what Sergio Toresella commented
> when looking at
> f34r - and that coloured his overall view of the VMs.
>
> All the same, I think Jon may be onto something with his pair of
> "stallions" on f34v, simply because there are apparently two
> horse-like
> shapes meeting in the middle - each with a pair of fore-legs,
> an elongated
> body section, a pair of hind-legs, a tail, & an upright head
> (of sorts).
> Oh, and not forgetting and (as Jon astutely observes) an
> entwined pair of
> comically elongated... well, you know the rest. :-)
>
> As for the crests apparently on their heads, I don't know:
> perhaps that too
> will become clear if/when we find a (crypto-)heraldic match
> for it. :-o
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling......
>
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