tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post2481938179496758251..comments2024-03-28T04:41:30.440-04:00Comments on DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS: The Cave/Dungeon Mouth MotifKiltedyaksmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462341093016199620noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-4768348771285944262011-11-03T12:40:32.896-04:002011-11-03T12:40:32.896-04:00Just a funny coincidence... I OWN that original Ho...Just a funny coincidence... I OWN that original Holloway illustration. It's framed in my bedroom.Bob Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12073807225519106277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-16540489161197234682011-10-14T16:49:52.797-04:002011-10-14T16:49:52.797-04:00What, that cave isn't *actually* a giant DM &q...What, that cave isn't *actually* a giant DM "screw you" trick monster?Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-52154298784618892922011-10-13T19:23:10.646-04:002011-10-13T19:23:10.646-04:00There's a lot of language that is suggestive o...There's a lot of language that is suggestive of death and the underworld having a mouth and associated features: the yawning abyss, the bowels of the earth, etc.<br />I'm pretty sure I have seen Hindu and Buddhist art that uses the hellmouth motif as well. Good call on the Christian art, Zhu Bajiee.<br />I'd say that the digestive imagery is negative, while womb imagery is positive.Theodric the Obscurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18201793290118146978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-25289634427265921942011-10-13T17:58:53.978-04:002011-10-13T17:58:53.978-04:00"vagina dentata" in the example shown!
..."vagina dentata" in the example shown!<br /><br />The gate to Hell is often shown as a literal mouth, the Anglo Saxon Winchester Psalter - <a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/cottmanucoll/t/011cotnerc00004u00039000.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/cottmanucoll/h/011cotnerc00004u00024000.html" rel="nofollowzhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-64907248742731927872011-10-13T15:33:08.554-04:002011-10-13T15:33:08.554-04:00Very cool. Didn't think of that one.Very cool. Didn't think of that one.Kiltedyaksmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03462341093016199620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737025559858978163.post-84033417736637285882011-10-13T14:46:15.606-04:002011-10-13T14:46:15.606-04:00Also, the grave.
"...the thirsty entrance of...Also, the grave.<br /><br /><i>"...the thirsty entrance of this soil shall daub her lips with her own children's blood..."</i>Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096724870715714696noreply@blogger.com