It's the snail that really gets me about this image.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@mongoose probably a hare rather than a rabbit. And a grey was a medieval term for a hare hence greyhound. Cool eh? An image of the world turned upside down. The hare rides the hound that hunts it and uses a snail to 'hawk' for salad.

[mongoose@vmst.io]

@capnthommo Ooh, that's fascinating - I didn't know any of that! Thank you.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@mongoose that was just my interpretation of the image. I don't necessarily guarantee its validity but I think it's a fair shot.

[occasionalducks@c.im]

@capnthommo @mongoose

+1
Roughly what I came here to say too, but better put than I’d have managed.

[pascaline@mastodon.nl]

@capnthommo

It is a hare, the godess Ēostre liked to descend to the human plane disguised as a hare.

@mongoose

[carabruar@sfba.social]

@mongoose or it may be satire, poking fun at someone who was nowhere near as special as they thought they were.

[jorny@mastodon.social]

@mongoose
The marginalia is even more fascinating when you consider that the cost of a book was basically the cost of a house today.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@pascaline @mongoose yes. Certainly a hare. Just look at the profile of the face and those rear legs. Didn't know about Eostre's avatar though.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@mongoose one hell of a snail if he needs a falconry glove to perch on.

[mongoose@vmst.io]

@falcennial Heh!

[pascaline@mastodon.nl]

@capnthommo

It's such a terrific story, really, and so many don't know about it. But Easter, Ēostre, Ostara, it's all related. The hare is certainly not a rabbit, and absolutely no 'bunny'

@mongoose

[mongoose@vmst.io]

@Virginicus I'm pretty sure you're not actually my best friend in disguise; but a) from your profile image you do look awfully like him, and b) you have his turn of phrase. You aren't by any chance related in some way to a professional tenor living in Bath, are you?

[capnthommo@c.im]

@Virginicus @mongoose

[lkdc@dmv.community]

@mongoose Thank you for the wonderful alt text.

[simonwilliamson@mastodon.world]

@mongoose The rabbit is practicing snailry. For those who have a LOT of time on their hands.

[mongoose@vmst.io]

@Lkdc Thank you... I'm very conscious of the fact that not everyone is able to see images (clearly or at all), so I do my best to describe them as far as I can.

[kzodasnowman@spore.social]

@mongoose

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The snaile cannot hear the snailer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

[amorablackrose@mastodon.social]

@mongoose looks like the things that go on inside my brain sometimes, ngl

[mongoose@vmst.io]

@amorablackrose The best sort of brain to have.

[dylanwre@scicomm.xyz]

@mongoose the recent #RadioLab episode on snails' mating habits gives a cool theory about why they show up in a lot of old art. All to do with their Love Darts.