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

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

imagine running around like this 😩
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