Baroque MongooseIt's the snail that really gets me about this image. I mean, it's fairly bizarre to start with, but the snail takes the weird to a whole new level.
Stoneface Vimes@mongoose probably a hare rather than a rabbit. And a grey was a medieval term for a hare hence greyhound. Cool eh? An image of the world turned upside down. The hare rides the hound that hunts it and uses a snail to 'hawk' for salad.
@capnthommo Ooh, that's fascinating - I didn't know any of that! Thank you.
@mongoose that was just my interpretation of the image. I don't necessarily guarantee its validity but I think it's a fair shot.
OccasionalDucks+1
Roughly what I came here to say too, but better put than Iโd have managed.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! ๐ฅIt is a hare, the godess ฤostre liked to descend to the human plane disguised as a hare.
@pascaline @mongoose yes. Certainly a hare. Just look at the profile of the face and those rear legs. Didn't know about Eostre's avatar though.
It's such a terrific story, really, and so many don't know about it. But Easter, ฤostre, Ostara, it's all related. The hare is certainly not a rabbit, and absolutely no 'bunny' ๐
Virginicus@capnthommo @mongoose Snail-falconry is a sport that teaches patience. The hare seems to have learned something from the incident with the tortoise.
@Virginicus I'm pretty sure you're not actually my best friend in disguise; but a) from your profile image you do look awfully like him, and b) you have his turn of phrase. You aren't by any chance related in some way to a professional tenor living in Bath, are you?
@mongoose Long way from Bath, and Iโm a bass. ๐ I have one of the Standard-issue Faces, and this happens all the time.
Cara Bruar@mongoose or it may be satire, poking fun at someone who was nowhere near as special as they thought they were.
jorny
millennial fulcrum@mongoose one hell of a snail if he needs a falconry glove to perch on.
@falcennial Heh! ๐
Simon dฤ Gulielmล ๐ง@mongoose The rabbit is practicing snailry. For those who have a LOT of time on their hands.
K-ZO da SnowmanTurning and turning in the widening gyre
The snaile cannot hear the snailer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Amora@amorablackrose The best sort of brain to have. ๐
Dylan Roskams-Edris
Susan L@mongoose I think you may like this ologies episode about weird medieval snails https://www.alieward.com/ologies/medievalcodicology
Medieval Codicology (WEIRD OLD MANUSCRIPT ART & MEMES & SNAILS) with Evan Pridmore โ alie ward
Medieval art memes! Human-faced animals! Drunk monks! And a preponderance of snails. Middle Ages manuscript expert, art history communicator, and Medieval Codicologist Evan Pridmore cover: what those golden illuminated Middle Ages manuscripts were made of, who drew them, why were people sometimes na
@susanleemburg Thank you very much! I'll give that a listen.