Blemmyes: mythological, headless men with no head and face in torso, talked about in medieval travel chronicles📝 a theory is that they could have been sightings of Orangutans. #medieval #medievalsky #medievalart #bestiary #blemmye #blemia #medievalmanucript #mythology #headlessmen
Medieval illustration of a blemmye, a folkloric being without a head but with its face on its chest. He's just a little guy.
dumb game idea: metroidvania/Xanadu style platformer RPG with a blemmye protagonist called Lemmye the Blemmye. You fight through a menagerie of medieval bestiary weirdness to ... I don't know ... rescue a sacred magical pail stolen by the hated monopods a village over.
#gameidea #blemmye
An arm with an eye eyebrow, and mouth. It's a little wretched tbh.
#blemmye #valanis
What a terrible creature. Ah well i'll learn blood splatter effects later and make it right.
Blemmyes, monopods, and other human monsters in #medievalart #medievalsky #medieval #blemmye #monopod
Hare or rabbit fighting a lion
Bear fatality'ing an unicorn
Unicorn fighting a lion or panther
Weird human, maybe a blemmye, defending itself with a shield from a lion
Medieval beasts and animals FIGHTING!!! RUMBLE!!! #medievalsky #medievalbestiary #medievalart #medieval #bestiary #bestiario #marginalia #unicorn #rabbit #bear #panther #lion #blemmye #medievalmanuscript
Ever seen a Blemmye/Akepholai look like it’s about to bust into an acapella routine? Now you have.
#blemmye
#akepholai
#grimdark
#dungeonsanddragons
#mörkborg
#28mag
#miniaturepainting
blemmyes chilling People without heads - miniature from folio 041v from Der naturen bloeme (KB KA 16) by Jacob van Maerlant
St Margaret and the dragon (!) Picture Bible, Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer (?), ca. 1190-1200 Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76F5, fol. 32r
The antichrist!!!!!1!! Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(ntechristus) of Antichrist seated on a rainbow, a parody of God seated on the rainbow, flanked by two men; each of the figures has a third eye in the centre of their foreheads. Image taken from f. 100v of Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio). Written in Latin.
a sun headed humanoid attacking a human with a spear, or: Detail of a miniature of Apollo killing Ganymede by piercing his eye in a book by Christine de Pizan, c. 1414
Assorted humanoids and humans! blemmyes, dragons, the Antichrist(!) and even a greek God! #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #headlessmen #blemmye #dragon #dragons #antichrist #apollo #greekmythology #saintmargaret #stmargaret #catholicart #bestiary #bestiario
just a couple of wonky little medieval marginalia-inspired weirdos while the worldly horrors persist~
[ #illustration #darkart #darkaesthetic #whimsical #medievalmarginalia #blemmye #harpy ]
Book of Hours known as the Master of Flowers, by François Petrarch, 1533 [BNF Arsenal Ms-640 reserve
The Hague, MMW, 10 A 11 f. 305r. Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Vol. I). Translation from the Latin by Raoul de Presles. Paris, Maïtre François (illuminator); c. 1475; 1478-1480. http://manuscripts.kb.nl/
Monstrous races German Manuscript of Rabanus Maurus - c. 1425 Roma, Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291, fol-75v
Bacchus riding a wingless griffin in a vineyard – Paris, BnF, fr. 9197, f. 181v
Animals and Medieval Beasts, Humans and Religious Figures, as part of the same images and interacting, part 3. Alt Text contains information about the image and source! some even have links to the manuscripts ;) #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #bestiary #bestiario #animalia #bachus #blemmye
"Now you stand no chance, you small-head men, our cavalry is coming! It's round around the corner... wait for it... wait for it... oh, you're in so much trouble now... you just wait... they'll be here any minute now... you just wait... bear with me... "
#blemmye #fantasy #snail #knight #miniatures
