Zum Inhalt der Seite gehen

mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag

OLD THREAD REPOST. If you feel compelled to reply with the word "Jesussy", please drop some money in our GoFundMe because we're going to have to read it about 1000 times and deserve some moral support for that.

HAPPY EASTER! It's the perfect day for us to tell you all about JESUS'S VAGINA... or more specifically, medieval interpretations of Christ's side wound as, well... look at it.
1. Courtesy of British Library
2. Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Page from a medieval manuscript. Amid writing is a drawing of Jesus with wounds in his side and hands. He is standing next to a large heart shaped diagram with a drawing of a thin, diamond-shaped design red outlined which looks like a mouth or a vulva. It is surrounded by little accents which look like pubic or facial hair. Another picture in a corner of a monk looking up at it and praying
Page from a medieval manuscript. ornate marginalia of trees and vines surround a large red drawing of an almond shape in red. White outline. Pink-red inside, and a dark slit up the middle.
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •

There are numerous depictions of Jesus's wound turned on its side, and shaped distinctly like a vulva. Some surviving representations of the wound are worn, probably because people kissed and rubbed them. At least three medieval saints had visions - sometimes ecstatic - involving kissing or drinking from the wound.

1. Bodleian Library
2. A historic Book of Hours

Medieval icon with nine panels. They depict the crucifixion from Jesus next to the cross, on the cross, a selection of spears, a tomb, an open coffin, a nude person walking, some empty clothes and in the middle a large, pink, vulca-shaped object with hands reaching to it
Page from a medieval manuscript depicting three scenes. Top is Jesus on the cross surrounded by followers. In the middle, an almond shaped red figure surrounded by white, which is very rubbed and worn. Bottom panel is people looking up and praying to it.
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •
Aelred of Rievaulx, when inviting his sister to imagine Jesus's wound, wrote, using imagery almost identical to that in the Song of Songs, scripture's horniest passage:
"Then one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance and there came forth blood and water. Hasten, linger not, eat the honeycomb with your honey, drink your wine with your milk... Your lips, stained with his blood, will become like a scarlet ribbon and your word sweet."
Mr Bean copying meme format. Two men sit in an exam. An very generic man is writing. He is captioned "Song of Songs". Mr Bean, a comic character sits next to him reading his work. He is captioned "Aelred of Rievaulx describing Jesus's wound"
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •

Penetration of the wound is a common motif, particularly because in the Bible story, Thomas has his doubts about the resurrection alleviated by sticking his fingers right in there.

The Incredulity of At Thomas by Caravaggio, circa 1602.

Dramatically lit renaissance painting of a group of four men. One, in white, is well lit. The other three men in shadow face him. They are looking at a wound in the man in white's side. One has a finger stuck in kt
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •

There's also images depicting Jesus giving birth from his side wound.

12th Century French, Ecclesia

Medieval manuscript page depicting Jesus on the cross surrounded by spectators. A very small man in a crown is emerging from his side. A man wearing a halo is catching it and guiding it out
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •

The wound was associated more explicitly associated with literal childbirth, and imagery appeared on "birth girdles" which were pressed against women to alleviate pain during labour.

Courtesy of Wellcome Images, late 15th century

Sheet with a painting of a bleeding diamond surrounded by hands and feet
Als Antwort auf Vagina Museum

Vagina Museum
mastodon - Link zum Originalbeitrag
Vagina Museum
• •

It's not hard to see why a hole which bled and produced a clear liquid, and was penetrated, was represented and understood in a way so closely linked to vaginas and vulvas.

Both courtesy of Bibliotheque nationale de France

Medieval icon of an almond shaped figure, red pink. It appears to have inner and outer labia and really looks like a vulva. Religious words are written around a white border on it.
Diamond figure, red, with a large slit down the middle and a heart shape. White border with religious text. Angels at each corner grasp at the shape
⇧