The Silent Orgy
The Parable of Dives & Lazarus
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'MARGINAL' SCULPTURES
ON MEDIÆVAL BUILDINGS


Examples of figures of sin
grouped according to category.

 

 

male exhibitionists on mediæval churches

 

the
column-swallower
mystery

 

ireland
& the phallic continuum

 

field guide
to megalithic ireland

 

irish sweathouses

 

the earth-mother's
lamentation

 

"images of lust"

 

beyond-the-pale

 

 


 

 

Acrobats, Contortionists and Dancers – non-exhibitionist

Acrobat – exhibitionist, female feet-to-ears atlante

Acrobat – exhibitionist, megaphallic male

Actor holding a mask, Châteauneuf-sur-Saône,
an extremely rare motif

 

Adultery – included in Concupiscentia (below)

Anger – inter-male strife

Animals – ape (bears and dogs occur occasionally)

Atlante (Atlas-figure, non-exhibitionist, symbolism obscure)


An antique Atlas-sculpture found in 2018 on the Acropolis, Athens.


AVARITIA

Beard-pullers

Blasphemy is evident in such images as that of a (gluttonous ?) beast holding a Host.

Corbels in context in a rural church

Corbel-table at Cervatos

Coupling couples (Concupiscentia)
Couples – groping
Couple – kissing

Drunkenness rarely features as an important sin.
Figures holding what appear to be barrels are, in fact,
blowing the
Dolio which was much more reprehensible,
because music led to dancing and dancing led to sex.
This Asturian corbel, however, may have a sexual implication.

Female exhibitionist squatter

Gluttony is another very rare motif, because the population
targeted by exterior church sculptures had little possibility of committing it.
Figures eating a round cake, as at Lunac, might represent priests
blasphemously eating the Host.
On the other hand, Column-swallowers are known as Gloutons in French...

Homosexuality (non-penetrative) between monks has been a perennial monastic 'problem'.

LUXURIA

Male genitals

Male masturbating (rather glumly)

Male megaphallic (also a mouthpuller)

Mouth-pullers

Musicians

Sodomy (anal penetration)

Thornpullers (male and female)

Tongue-puller/poker male and female

Vulva-puller

 

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