14-05-2026, 12:23 PM
Many medieval works of art have a childlike quality. I'm thinking, for example, of a work I know well: the Cantigas de Santa María, with its narrative miniatures of the miracles of the Virgin, reminiscent of comic strips. Or the story of the Norman conquest of England in the Bayeux Tapestry, which looks as if it were made by a child.
If a child heard an ancient preacher speak of the pains of hell, he would probably draw the torments of the damned that we see on the tympanums of medieval churches. We've all seen that miniature of Gregory the Great writing with a dove by his ear, meant to represent that his works were inspired by the Holy Spirit. If we tell a child that God spoke to the saint through a dove, I don't think they'd do anything differently.
I see some of this in the way the author has arranged the female figures in the tubes or the rows of figures in the pools waiting to launch themselves down the tube. It's like a comic strip depicting how astral influence is channeled.
If a child heard an ancient preacher speak of the pains of hell, he would probably draw the torments of the damned that we see on the tympanums of medieval churches. We've all seen that miniature of Gregory the Great writing with a dove by his ear, meant to represent that his works were inspired by the Holy Spirit. If we tell a child that God spoke to the saint through a dove, I don't think they'd do anything differently.
I see some of this in the way the author has arranged the female figures in the tubes or the rows of figures in the pools waiting to launch themselves down the tube. It's like a comic strip depicting how astral influence is channeled.