PF - Dog-headed St Christopher

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 09 Dec 2007, 04:08 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:08:27 +1100
Subject: (urth) PF - Dog-headed St Christopher
Message-ID: <20071209040828.50E5D22846 at mailserver10.hushmail.com>

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 ...

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