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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And medieval European books have knights fighting giant snails. Whatever could it mean?

[–] FlyingSquid 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The reptilians clearly killed off all the giant snails in Europe after the knights tried to fight them while mounted on them.

I can't explain the rabbits though.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Can you explain dicks on trees, tho?

[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 5 days ago

Have you never seen a penis willow before? I mean I assume you've heard of pussy willows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Ahhh, so that's the field where upon mine fucks grow! It is no longer baren.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

They don't grow naturally like that. They're grafted on, like a fruit tree that has apples, pears and plums. Mostly plums.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Honestly though, what do those pictures mean? Just bored monks or is there a story behind them?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Bored monks, most of the time. Just image search "weird medieval illumination" for all sorts of weird shit on books from 1100~1400

[–] ChicoSuave 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The actual answer is because Japan has lots of reptile representation among their demons and yokai.

Japan has lizards and enjoys them as a culture to celebrate. The closest the West has is "salamander = fire".

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There's some others, like sea serpents and the Western concept of dragons as giant flying lizards. A dragon is literally the symbol of Wales (okay, a wyvern if you want to be technical about it, but whatever).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

There's also a Baltic cult of worshipping wood snakes. And a fairy tale about one being the king of the sea.

[–] MutilationWave 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

(okay, a wyvern if you want to be technical about it, but whatever)

Nah that's a dragon. They hadn't invented D&D yet.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 5 days ago

For what it's worth, the word goes back to the 17th century. But Wikipedia also calls them a type of dragon, so 🤷.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

It is in fact a reference to the argonian maid but government don't want you to know!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Not even a maid that polishes spears. Such sad :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

They were so close, but it was actually amphibians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The Secret of the Ooze

[–] asdfasdfasdf 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Reptilian? It has clearly visible gills and fins, and looks distinctly like a fish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I see a Sleestak. The slowest, least scary monster in all media. And this one is a monk!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago