{"id":6336,"date":"2010-03-24T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2016-06-08T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:32:15","slug":"roberts-time-capsule-prussianian-art-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"Robert’s Time Capsule: Prussianian Art and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Success! Combing through his archives, Robert has unexpectedly uncovered several yellowing manuscripts from his own proto-Muser days, including a veritable trove of peasant art from the mysterious floating island of Prussiania<\/a>. Read on…
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This clearly represents some dreadful conqueror out of ancient Prussianian history, standing triumphant on the piled-up bodies of his human and armadillo foes and flanked by stylized trees. He might be part armadillo himself, or perhaps he is just wearing armadillo-carapace armor. Or is that a cape? I’m afraid his name is lost to memory, unless some contemporary notes turn up in the archives. Could he be the legendary Metamucil<\/a>?
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This one does have notes, titled Recent Peasant Work Uncovered in Hemophilia<\/b>. Row One is identified as follows: “Two armadillo officials point the way to a begging pariah [peasant] in Bacterian (prob.) mud-fields. Overhead floats a zeppelin while a mud-digger digs in the background.” Row Two is a satire on Prussianian court life. Nobles pick one another’s pockets, but the King’s pocket is padlocked. At right, two peasant servants carry in the Armadillo Vizier, clearly a personage of some importance.
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This is a scene from everyday life. Peasants capture and cook a sea turtle for a nobleman, who rejects it. They cast it back into the sea. It’s clearly a commentary on the futility of life for the average Prussianian.
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Now we get a glimpse of Prussianian religion. The accompanying notes describe this picture as follows: “Cloud-gatherer Voltus [god of lightning, storms, and electricity] (with male and female plug and socket in hands), earth-mother Athea sitting on the flat world, and sweating [sun god] Solarcaine. They here depict the well-known myth of the courtship of Athea: Solarcaine offers the sun-bowl to Athea, who indignantly scorns his advances and runs to Voltus.”
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This depicts the Prussianian conception of the afterlife. In the top row, the mud-digging peasant sweats under the yoke of the haughty king and the cruel whip-wielding strawboss. At right, he dies and descends (head first) into the underworld. In the second row, an anthropomorphic armadillo-headed god resembling the Egyptian Anubis judges his soul by flipping a coin and sends it to its next life (row 3). It’s clearly a commentary on the futility, etc.
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This has nothing to do with Prussiania. It’s a Peanuts spoof that reflects my obsession with the Lord of the Rings. Note that I signed it in both Elvish Tengwar characters and Dwarvish Angerthas runes.
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Back to Prussiania and the piece de resistance<\/b>: a map! I was hoping something like this would turn up. It shows just part of the island; I don’t remember how much more there was. It must be a fairly early map; later on, Malaria and Diphtheria were combined into Phantasmagoria. Later still, the nobility got fed up with the king and fled to a nearby (non-floating) archipelago — but that’s a different story.<\/p>\n

There’s more…<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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