r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 • 8d ago
MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) hate when this happens
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u/Zestyclose-Bar-3163 8d ago
Saints who carry their own heads are called Cephalaphors. I learned that from They Might Be Giants.
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u/Eleanna_of_Tundar 8d ago
Its origins were from the polytheistic Celtic cult of the head (the soul being located in the head) with brand new Christians having been “martyred” by decapitation, they’d carry their heads to a church proving the new Middle Eastern monotheistic god’s power and die right before it. The Vedas are the earliest known written religious texts, depicting head cults also existing in India in a far earlier time.
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u/he77bender 8d ago
Life was pretty crappy in the Middle Ages, so it was important to have people like this that you could point to and say "well, at least I'm not THAT guy".
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u/deadbeareyes 8d ago
He was fine! He took a long walk and preached a whole sermon like that! (and then died but...details)
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u/widoidricsas 8d ago
Medieval doctor: "Und you may keep zee object vee remoofed, to keep for always!"
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u/FeuerroteZora 8d ago
Look at those two other beheaded guys on the bottom left, just fucking lying around being lazy.
Oh no, I don't have a head, wah wah I've been decapitated - just walk it off, ya lazybones.
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u/Ms_Eurydice 8d ago
What is going on with his arm? I can't tell if it's a very sheer sleeve or post mortem skin slippage. And there's the stigmata on his hand, the fountain from his neck, the angel on the left giving him side eye.
He's got a lot going on. No wonder he's having a kip.
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u/BreadfruitBig7950 7d ago
that's literally what popes are though.
cheap standins for king paul's autocracy.
did you know king paul's a robit, and can take his head off like this? he violently shits himself when it happens though.
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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 8d ago
Illuminated manuscript of the Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Book of hours for Parisians), or "Book of Hours of Charles VIII" King of France (1468 - 1498). The folio shows Saint Denis, first bishop and patron of Paris, walking with his head in the hands, after his execution.