Daniel Bellingradt on Nostr: Take your dragon out for a fly. This is an #earlymodern advice (from Athanasius ...

Take your dragon out for a fly.

This is an #earlymodern advice (from Athanasius Kircher), on how to and when to use your private #dragon to make an impression. The image is part of Kircher's 1678 "Mundus Subterraneus" (access: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10806648?page=557 ), and describes the way of using a dragon by #Jesuit missionaries to impress Non-Christians. When you zoom in, you see that the dragon features the Latin "Ira Dei": the wrath of God.

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