05-28-2007, 07:41 PM
Quote:The argument with the unimpeded movement and the very big elephant head is not bad. I got the same idea when I imagined what would happen if you are on the ground and have to look up to a big beast. From the front and the near you would not even see the mahout.
But not totally convincing as arrows and slingshots come from above in an arc, so the mahout actually must be hit from far away because every man with a distant weapon would have shoot at the elephant. Strange. Normally I thrust the pictural evidence. Perhaps they used some kind of magical yoga power to avoid the missiles.
The elephant's ears would also basically be giant leather screens on either side of the mahout, so he would also be afforded that protection.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
