Sunday, August 11, 2013

Stained Glass Sunday - Storyboard

Mediæval stained glass wasn't just decorative; it had a purpose to serve. Back then, if you didn't speak Latin you wouldn't know what the hell the service was all about, so the church provided pictures.

Not sure which part of the scriptures this one's supposed to depict, but reading from top to bottom I'd guess something along the lines of:

And the big guy saith "Dude! Check it out, man; I'm sitting here with all these giant red peaches an' shit."
And the lady in the nightie saith "Whatever. I mean you should have seen it! Like, it was THIS big!"
And the man with the bloody sword spake thus: "Endangered species, my ass! I can get at least a dozen designer handbags outta your hide."

If you're in church today, check out the stained glass and see what tales it has to tell.

4 comments:

Ms M said...

Beautiful glass. And love your interpretation of the story. (A little Python, anyone?)
The bottom one looks like St. George (perpetually) killing the dragon.

dive said...

Stained glass is definitely Pythonesque, Ms.M. And yes, that's St. George, the patron saint of rendering species extinct.

peahen said...

The top two 'red peaches' look like red billows of steam blowing out of the big dude's ears. Perhaps the others are previous emanations which are slowly falling to the ground. Maybe he's not as happy as he first looks.

dive said...

No wonder gods are so cranky.