Paisley Abbey and it’s strange creatures

Paisley Abbey
(Picture I)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In Scotland is a church named Paisley Abbey (Picture I). This medieval church or cathedral is known for demonic creatures, what are very rare and some of them have given Ridley Scott the idea of the alien, what lurks in the ventilation system of starship “Nostromo”. There is a couple of pictures from the internet, where is very strange creatures, and at the second picture ( Picture II) is a creature, what seems like the lizard with scuba diving equipment. I mean that the creature might have the tube of breathing system on the column.



What we can think about this creature. Somebody claims that this is a picture of the alien, who came from outer space, but if we think carefully, we can also infer that this might be the picture of ancient scuba diving system. When we are talking about modern scuba diving equipment, where is a ventilation system, it is invented by Jacques Cousteau during WW2, but there were used pressure bottles before the string ventilation have been connected to that system. Elder systems have used the tube, where the diver closed the flow of the air by using tongue and then pulled the dioxide from the nose. And in elder times were used the skin of Catfish or Shark as the diving suit. And even in ancient Greece were used the animal vesicles to increase the time of diving.

(Picture II)

So this statue might be portraying some medieval scuba diver. Another statue (Picture III) portraying fearful human, who lurks in some kind of tube. I don’t know what to say about this creature, and I must use my imagination. In my darkest imaginations, I have thought that maybe something was put in that poor person, and this person waits that some creature comes out. But maybe it is only the creature of fearing person, who sleeps in the sleeping bag, outside this chapel. Sometimes when I took those pictures, I think about the horrifying genetic experiments and witchcraft, what might be done behind those walls. In that time the witchcraft was quite common with the priests and noblemen.

(Picture III)

And maybe that creature is made to warn the people, who took the part of those actions, that they would ever say anything about those actions or rituals. Maybe the priests of this cathedral were cooked poison or made other prohibited things. In medieval time the priests were above the law. Also, the Christianity was not similar than today. People were burned on the pyre because they kept Holy Bible below hippie. But at the same time noblemen were outside the control, and they pursued witchcraft like poison cooking and foretelling. The last one was prohibited, because if some nobleman said, that some person would die, would that be the killing order for his mercenaries.

Sources:

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

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/03/10/alien-gargoyle/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23810979



Picture I

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Picture II

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Picture III

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Influence of the medieval period and the world of that time

(Picture 1)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In popular culture, we normally see medieval period violent and dangerous time. The term "Dark medieval period" might create by the Protestants, who wanted to destroy Catholic church. And in this light, we must understand that Protestants wanted to increase the Catholic church role as the instrument of power. This instrument was used to destroy the enemies of kings. And in this way of view, this era was the very pressing era, and the burning many persons who wanted to reform that organization gave it very dark reputation. That organization persecuted everybody who wrote anything that was not same opinions, as an officially accepted theological writing involved.


If there would be any conflict with Catholic church and writer, the last one would find himself at the top of the pyre. The women went straight to death because they could be prosecuted by the husband. Only men had rights in that time. The role of women, as they must be quiet, and their husband was talking in the public situation.  This is one way to look that period. The medieval period is quite different than we might expect, and of course, every criminal was not burned on the pyre. At that time were basically the same kind of criminal prosecution and punishment system than today. There was some kind of punishments like today, and the fine, prison and death penalties were used at that time. When we are talking about the inquisition, Dominican monks investigation system, the first punishments for prosecuted people were light.


The most common punishments were tickets, and the reason for this punishment was that was meant for cause hate against that person. This conviction was about the bullseye of the God. This was common version because somebody wrote the things, what were embarrassed for the Catholic church like the position of women and children. But when this person went back to home and tried to pay the price, there would not be any money. They were all taken, and then inquisition claimed that this person was cheapened the justice. And the reason for that must find out. That caused torture and death because the denying to pay the bill was so garish that it caused that penalty, where the person was burned to death.


The inquisition ever executed those people itself, the execution was made the secular authorities, that’s why Inquisition has kept its hands clean. The killing was not suitable for priests and nuns. It was the dirty job that left to sheriffs and soldiers. The medieval time was not full of the wars and despotism. The constitutional state was started to create in that time, and people learned to live even with Inquisition. The same thing was to happen in other fundamentalistic states in the world.


People would learn to live with that kind of system, and the turning to democracy was caused by war. The democratic state can mobilize all of the people, but dictatorship must leave large groups of the armed forces as the security troops, and this was the good argument for democracy if the state’s primary mission was to go to war. This model worked in Prussia, because it looked like more attractive, and gave people the change to take a part in the state leadership.


And this changed the military system that kind of thing, that every person in that state would feel, that they defended something important. But the democracy was far away from the medieval model, where the king was far away from the people. The kings ruled alone, and the people were same, who was their ruler. The unlimited rights of the ruler made the situation, that laws changed when the king changed. And that made the state very unstable.

Sources:

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"Three nice girls and three bad skeletons" from the medieval time

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