Jeff Wilson wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Pretending to be a bent, old man works, since most people don't want to<br>see more. This easily affords him the old shaman disguise, since the<br>covered face and the exposed physique is the complement of his Vizier<br>
disguise. And being purpose-made to pose as a human, by beings who can<br>make human-appearing beings, eliminates a specific need to shapeshift.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Considering what the other hieros look like, he would at least need a mask. Vertumnus doesn't necessarily shapeshift, either. In the myth of Pomona, for example, he wears a wig. I am reminded of Agilus's ribbons. I was thinking of Tzadkiel as the more obvious shapeshifting example.</div>