Re: VMs: Goat vs. sheep

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Elmar

Perhaps you missed a recent post I sent Jorge. 

The difference between a sheep and a goat in medical
astrology would be more or less tantamount to medieval
medical malpractice.

One of the tenets of medieval medicine is to begin
treatment according to the rising sign; that is, the
sign rising on the ascendant when the treatment
begins.  Capricorn rises at least four to six hours
before Aries.  Different treatment time, different
results.   

The goat (Capricorn) and the sheep (Aries) are ruled
by different planets.  In one case, you would be
invoking Saturn; in the other, Mars.  Both of these
are rather high-risk planets.  You don't want to call
on one when the other is required.

Your explanation might apply if the VMs writer was a
charlatan as an astrologer, but it does seem odd that
a con artist would bother to document his efforts. 
Encryption, that would be useful, since he wouldn't
want anyone to see them; but why write them at all? 
Why expose his substandard illustrations to the
scrutiny of those who knew better?

In addition, if the illustrator were truly careless,
we might reasonably expect to see less detail in the
drawings, not more.  Why carefully add dew claws on
all eight of the legs of the two goats when a lack of
dew claws is what distinguishes a sheep anyway?

Just my opinion.

Warmly,

Pam


--- elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Zitat von Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 
> >...
> >   > [Pam:]   A lack of exposure to sheep and goats
> simply
> >   > does not match the facts of European culture. 
> >   
> > I am still wondering whether that is true of
> sheep. They certainly
> > were common in most European *countries*, but what
> about *regions*
> > (plains vs. hills, etc.)?
> > 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Couldn't it simply be that the artist had no
> interest in details? Perhaps in his
> point of view, everybody knew that Aries was
> supposed to be a ram, and everybody
> knew what a ram would look like, so why put more
> effort in it than to paint a
> token creature which could pass for a sheep in a
> fleeting glance? (And mind you,
> those images are pretty small on the real vellum!)
> 
> I mean, he didn't even bother to go to lengths for
> anatomically correct women
> (their arm gestures are... dazzling), and we may
> assume that he had an idea what
> those looked like.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>    Elmar, anatomically correct, but not politically
> ;-)
> 
> 
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