Beste Glatisante

Medieval Things and a little historical-hysterical fun. The Questing Beast, or Beste Glatisante, is from Arthurian Legend.

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The battle, 1947, Remedios Varo

https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/the-battle-1947

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The “Etruscan werewolf” refers not to a shapeshifting beast but to a daemon-wolf—a liminal spirit between life and death in Etruscan belief. With a human body and wolf’s head, this being symbolized restless souls who had died violently or without proper burial.

Depictions appear on tomb paintings and artifacts like the Pontic Plate (c. 520 BC) from Vulci, showing a clawed wolf-man with gold bracelets among mythic creatures. To the Etruscans, the wolf embodied twilight and the passage to the underworld—a guardian of death and transition. Unlike modern legends, this figure reflected the spirit’s unrest, not transformation.

Pontic Plate (520 BC), depicting “Etruscan Wolf-Man,” Vulci, Italy 🇮🇹 — Museo Nazionale Etrusco, Villa Giulia, Rome.

[elevatedweirdoempire-deactivate]

1970s Vintage Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Set

[questingbeaste]

i grew up with this set

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[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

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[courtesycalling]

Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[flame-of-tar-valon]

"I think someone is trying to assassinate me ... They spiked my drink"

[screen cut to a goblet of wine with sharp caltrops at the bottom]

[thaliawashere]

I am now exclusively employing etm.

[focsle]

Home just in time for A N T I Q U E S R O A D S H O W !

[focsle]

Look at this CAR HORN!!

[bewareimfrench]

Imagine driving in 1915 Paris with a fuckin gargoyle on your Peugeot lol

[bowieboosh]

Cargoyle

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[homunculus-argument]

Wait so is the mandate of heaven and the divine right of kings the same kind of concept, or have I massively misunderstood one or the other?

[owl-violence]

divine right of kings: you can do whatever you want forever because you're god's specialest little boy!

mandate of heaven: do a good job ruling or god's gonna start sending hitmen

[homunculus-argument]

Ah, yeah, I see it now. This is the exact level of detail I needed of the key details of how to distinguish the two. Thank you.

[escapismsworld]

Monastery of Batalha, Portugal

Construction began in 1385

[storyhearts-journey]

Conien extraordinario from Naples 1650, Vatican Library, giovanile g. IV. 113, fol. 120 v)

[hrothgar]

La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus, Gautier Map, f. 11v, 1301-1400

Source: The National Library of France

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[questingbeaste]

coagulations! it’s a tiny dragon! 👏🏻👏🏻

[confirmed-and-contorted]

“ah, my lady, watch your footing near these stai-”

CLANG-KLINK-SCREEK-CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK-SKREE-CLINK-TSCEECH!

[demonagerie]

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 291, detail of f. 170v. Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis. 1425