medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hmmmm The human character gripping the winged serpent's head is very
carefully avoiding eye-contact with it.
well, we must be careful not to "over read" here --"over reading" can lead
one
to see all sorts of things which might or might not be there,
in this instance, its pretty hard to establish eye contact with a beast
which
is whispering in your ear.
i should know what the iconography here is but don't.
Is n't there something in Irish (?) mythology about a hero / saint ?? having
his ears licked by a snake and then finding he could understand the language
of birds and animals ??
Just a very - cloudy - thought .
BMC
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