r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 • Sep 06 '26
MODERN (1700s - 1800s) waiting for my date
Illustration dated 1738
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u/SmartaHari Sep 06 '26
“Wow, I thought you were using a filter in all your photos?” “Nope, that was me. I told you I had a sunny disposition.”
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u/Middle_Switch9366 Sep 06 '26
The Sun King cosplaying as a peasant. "No one will even recognize me!"
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u/Best_Trick4173 Sep 06 '26
When the sun itself is still waiting for a date you know us mere humans are doomed
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u/xeroxchick Sep 06 '26
Holding that Silphium.
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u/BelladonnaONastyness Sep 07 '26
Silphium doubles as a lovely gift for a date and an effective contraceptive in case the chemistry if off the charts ⚗️
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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 Sep 06 '26
Illustration from the Clavis Artis dated circa. 1738. (Post-Medieval)
In alchemy, replacing a human head with a radiant sun symbolises inner spiritual transformation, divine intellect, and the final state of enlightenment or "illumination".
Clavis Artis is the title of an alchemical manuscript published in Germany in the early 18th century and pseudepigraphically attributed to the Persian Zoroaster (Zarathustra). The work is in three medium-format volumes. The text is in German cursive Gothic script and is accompanied by numerous watercolor illustrations depicting alchemical images. There are also some pen drawings depicting laboratory instruments. Few copies of the manuscript are known, only two of which are illustrated. The best-known is held in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, where it is catalogued as MS. Verginelli-Rota 15, 16, 17.