# PF - Dog-headed St Christopher *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Dec 2007* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### thalassocrat at nym.hush.com *09 Dec 2007, 04:08* Chris says: "The artists of the Middle Ages painted allegories, we say. What really happened was that they saw more clearly than we do, and painted what they saw - angels and devils, beasts, and half- human monsters like me." I wonder if he's thinking of images like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:L_022.jpg Apparently St Christopher was sometimes described as cynocephalic. I doubt that Chris' test-tube included any dog (wolf?) DNA, but you never know ... ---