Comments on: Das Buch der Natürlichen Weißheit’s Wudéwásá

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:20:36 +0000

Anyway…Interesting set of woodcuts there, folks—certainly proves that “hairy creatures” were not confined to just NOW.

By: aclockworkorange

aclockworkorange — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:58:02 +0000

Great article! I particularly liked the collection of pictures. That coin is too cool.

By: Storfot

Storfot — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:03:28 +0000

And for the museum: 625$

A bit hefty in my opinion.

P.S. Taler (daler in Scandinavia) is the etymological origin of the dollar.

By: Storfot

Storfot — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:18:02 +0000

Some quick research on the coins and the area they are from leads me to believe that the woodwose is an old pagan god.
Apparently, the woodwose is possibly connected with the Green Man and is pre-Christian.

John Mathew’s Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman from 2002 might give some ideas of the origin of the woodwose.

Definitely not a long shot because pre-Christian cultures in North Europe borrowed from each other.

By: Storfot

Storfot — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:59:20 +0000

Seems these coins were made for quite some time. They are from BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG.

By: manticora

manticora — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:07:37 +0000

The book is showing a fable (Cyrillus Fabel). And as I can read in the other pages from the link above them talking about “Affen” the german word for monkey. I will get some literature about the “Buch der natürlichen Weissheit” the next days! manticora

By: Sordes

Sordes — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:38:46 +0000

I don´t think the hairy “humanoids” in the woodcuts are actually wild men or wudewasa. If you look at the other plates, it seems this is are only animals acting like humans, for example the bear with the sallet and the halberd. It seems more probable to me those creatures are just monkeys, which were already at medieval times known in Europe, and often used for allegories and fables, and this book in particular was a collection of fables.

By: manticora

manticora — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:32:08 +0000

These are only some pages of the book they are but interesting. manticora