What is so special with this creature?
When we are looking at this sculpture or creature, what is made on the wall of the bell tower of the church of Vähäkyrö, Finland (Picture I), we must notice, that there is something interesting about that man-shaped creature. Another leg of that inmate seems to be bigger than other, and that thing brings in my mind the medieval image of the monopod from Nuremberg chronicles, who has only one extremely large leg (Picture II). When we are thinking about medieval art, there is one thing, what we must remember.
That thing is that the monopod would be actually the caricature, what gave the anthropologists instructions, what they must be looking for in some special situations. But why the bigger leg is so interesting? Was it the mark of belonging of some royal families, or is there something deeper meaning? When we are thinking about the anthropological characteristics, that kind of things was a very good note, when the criminals were searching from the forests.
There is one very interesting detail of those very mysterious figures. The people, who have faced abductions are claimed to see some kind of handicapped people, who have grotesque figures, and who were communicating with the abductors. There is possible that this thing has been caused by extreme stress or something, what we don't know. But we know that there is something special of that kind of images because it was made on the wall of church's bell tower.
Nobody makes those things for fun, and there is a detail, that this creature may ask for money or something else. The clothes of that character are clean, and that would not seem like a poor man, which makes this thing very interesting. So this image is not made for causing pity, and this man seems like really hard.
And there must be some reason, why that character has been made in this particular place. Was it really made for remembering, that somebody need help, or for some kind of warning, that there would be some kind of problem if somebody will hurt that person? And there is not any kind of cup, where that character would collect the money. So who or what that character was? That is a really good question for thinking on a bright summer day in the year 2019.
(Picture II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Strange_People_-_Umbrella_Foot_(XIIr).jpg
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| Picture I |
When we are looking at this sculpture or creature, what is made on the wall of the bell tower of the church of Vähäkyrö, Finland (Picture I), we must notice, that there is something interesting about that man-shaped creature. Another leg of that inmate seems to be bigger than other, and that thing brings in my mind the medieval image of the monopod from Nuremberg chronicles, who has only one extremely large leg (Picture II). When we are thinking about medieval art, there is one thing, what we must remember.
That thing is that the monopod would be actually the caricature, what gave the anthropologists instructions, what they must be looking for in some special situations. But why the bigger leg is so interesting? Was it the mark of belonging of some royal families, or is there something deeper meaning? When we are thinking about the anthropological characteristics, that kind of things was a very good note, when the criminals were searching from the forests.
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| Picture II |
There is one very interesting detail of those very mysterious figures. The people, who have faced abductions are claimed to see some kind of handicapped people, who have grotesque figures, and who were communicating with the abductors. There is possible that this thing has been caused by extreme stress or something, what we don't know. But we know that there is something special of that kind of images because it was made on the wall of church's bell tower.
Nobody makes those things for fun, and there is a detail, that this creature may ask for money or something else. The clothes of that character are clean, and that would not seem like a poor man, which makes this thing very interesting. So this image is not made for causing pity, and this man seems like really hard.
And there must be some reason, why that character has been made in this particular place. Was it really made for remembering, that somebody need help, or for some kind of warning, that there would be some kind of problem if somebody will hurt that person? And there is not any kind of cup, where that character would collect the money. So who or what that character was? That is a really good question for thinking on a bright summer day in the year 2019.
(Picture II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Strange_People_-_Umbrella_Foot_(XIIr).jpg
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