07-09-2025, 01:24 AM
It still seems to me that what would be more helpful is a list of known scams, known confidence operations, known "fake" relics.
You are trying to put yourself into the mind of the people that did this, but making value judgements according to what you think is reasonable rather than what has been historically shown to be done, whether it seems reasonable to you or not.
I lean toward it being a religiously inspired prop because there is so much of that happening in the middle ages. But I can't dismiss the possibility that it might encode some secret meaning, because that was also a part of the medieval mindset. I love the music of the time (OK "love" is a strong word) But the symbolism they embedded into everything is certainly cause for pause.
My third theory of its usage would be some kind of secret society, inside the monastery where it was produced: my assumption there being that it was produced in a monastery. But still basically encoding nonsense.
You are trying to put yourself into the mind of the people that did this, but making value judgements according to what you think is reasonable rather than what has been historically shown to be done, whether it seems reasonable to you or not.
I lean toward it being a religiously inspired prop because there is so much of that happening in the middle ages. But I can't dismiss the possibility that it might encode some secret meaning, because that was also a part of the medieval mindset. I love the music of the time (OK "love" is a strong word) But the symbolism they embedded into everything is certainly cause for pause.
My third theory of its usage would be some kind of secret society, inside the monastery where it was produced: my assumption there being that it was produced in a monastery. But still basically encoding nonsense.