Helen
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Quite a lot earlier, but still, this is how one mediaeval artist imagined a lion would look;
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Steve
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You can find good advice in every thread on this forum.
Yup I was thinking of that
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The tattoos make it look tough.
Helen
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I love mediaeval paintings of animals, especially of ones the artists have only heard about, but never seen!
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Except they didn't say it was a lion back then. They said it was some kind of gigantic, muscular wolf, that didn't behave anything like a wolf does. The hypothesis that it better matches a male lion without a mane is quite modern, and based on contemporary descriptions. Because, yeah, some people saw it and lived to write about it. We're also talking about mid 18th century, not about what some dark ages monk painted. They already HAD wolves, tigers and lions in menageries.
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Helen
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Or a rabid wolf, or one that had become used to humans, perhaps? People are dreadful eye witnesses, anyway.
I know that the lovely painting i posted was far earlier, but it's too good not to post, so I took advantage of your thread, sorry
I know that the lovely painting i posted was far earlier, but it's too good not to post, so I took advantage of your thread, sorry
That's not entirely surprising to me, given your posts here.
Look it was late, and there was no light in the Ark and I thought it was a deer!
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Helen
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Oh, medieval and ancient cryptids are a right barrel of laughs. For example, they thought cotton (which came from abroad) actually came from a plant growing a sheep kinda fruit, and actually painted that in several different manuscripts
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It seems the mystery was solved barely six months after the attacks began. The beasts were a scourge sent by God to punish men for their sins.
As often happens, the bishop's insight had no practical effect upon the scourge.
One of my favourites is the dog-headed people, Jesus even went to visit with them:
I didn't know that Jesus visited Hartlepool
Steve
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Egyptians?
Helen
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Oh, medieval and ancient cryptids are a right barrel of laughs. For example, they thought cotton (which came from abroad) actually came from a plant growing a sheep kinda fruit, and actually painted that in several different manuscripts
And we haven't even mentioned Aristoteles and his natural science yet! (Which, like the curate's egg, is excellent in parts, but also hilarious.)
Not by the time of that image, that's Roman Catholic and Orthodox christian mythology, I think Marco Polo also mentioned them.
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Visit them? St Christopher even carried Jesus on his shoulders. Christopher = Christ Carrier. And he was apparently some kind of wolfman according to classical sources. And somewhere between 5.33 and 6.28 metres tall, depending on which cubit size you believe was used. Note that I'm not talking feet, but metres. Multiply that by 3.28 to get the size in feet, ya imperial bastards. So yeah, he was mech warrior sized.
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But did he have two penises? Or penes, to re-open that argument....
Anyway, historical mysteries; Krete, the Minoan civilization, the labrys and Linear A.