Tentacled Deity In Middle Ages?

[Cacique Caribe]

Has anyone here seen this?



https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hildegard_von_Bingen.jpg

What does that look like to you?

I think someone could easily mass their medieval troops to fight both for and against such a tentacled entity, don’t you think?  Would that make for an awesome scenario?  Thoughts?

Dan
PS.  I know it’s not what it looks like, by the way.  But it could spark some gaming ideas, I would hope.

[DivisMal]

Has anyone here seen this?

What does that look like to you?

I think someone could easily mass their medieval troops to fight both for and against such a tentacled entity, don’t you think?  Would that make for an awesome scenario?  Thoughts?

Dan
PS.  I know it’s not what it looks like, by the way.  But it could spark some gaming ideas, I would hope.

Great idea and a rather funny find. Love the idea of Hildegard von Bingen and Cthulhu.

[Michi]

Love the idea of Hildegard von Bingen and Cthulhu.

Her spiritual advisor Karl Tulu is shown on the right, lurking in the walls. Hear, hear! Secrets untold are unrevealed now!

[MHoxie]

That's not nun, it's imitation.

[Cacique Caribe]

Looks like the problem was more widespread than I initially thought:





More:
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/529/758/large/robert-altbauer-abscheulich-ding.jpg?1448045093

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9Bxoy

Dan

[War Monkey]

Those are some interesting artworks going on there, would make for an interesting book find for players to puzzle over and find clues!

[Cacique Caribe]

Or murals and tapestries!

Dan

[War Monkey]

Or murals and tapestries!

Hanging on the walls of some cult temple, or in some secret back room in a mansion of some person of wealth.

[Michi]

Outstanding find! The narrations are very funny too!

[dadlamassu]

Very useful find. Suits an idea that I have been toying with for a long time.

[Cacique Caribe]

Suits an idea that I have been toying with for a long time.

May I ask what is that idea you are “toying with”? 

Dan

[FierceKitty]

It's clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster inspiring Abbess Hildegard with his noodly appendages, and creating music worth listening to at last. Can I hear a "Ramen" to that?

[dadlamassu]

May I ask what is that idea you are “toying with”? 
Dan

I have quite a number of Dark Age and early medieval figures and have had a notion to modify some Arthurian and Carolingian legends, myths and stories to Cthulhu mythos . 

[Cacique Caribe]

Perhaps the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 were really fishmen!  And that’s why the powers that be had to change the Basques to Moors in the Song of Roland?

Dan

[dadlamassu]

Perhaps the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 were really fishmen!  And that’s why the powers that be had to change the Basques to Moors in the Song of Roland?

Dan

Likewise the Angles, Saxons and Danish pagan invaders of Britain.