31-07-2026, 12:04 PM
Let me put it this way.
I can certainly understand that, living in a big city far from the mountains, you might not know what an ibex looks like.
To see them, you have to go into the mountains.
I see it differently when it comes to billy goats and rams.
For example:
I don’t know what a ram looks like, so I’ll just draw a goat. I reckon he’s drawn the ram as he imagined it to be.
Which is more likely: simply drawing something he’d be familiar with, or a breed we no longer recognise today?
Now I’m applying this to the ram in the VM.
As far as I’m concerned, he drew it as he saw it.
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I see the same thing with the scorpion. It’s completely unknown north of the Alps. But people are already familiar with its peculiar markings.
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