However, due to their design being purely ornamental, these are called grotesque or chimera. When you spot these protectors, your first instinct may be to call these “gargoyles”. While exploring Ravenwood, you’ll find that there are some of our own Castle guardians who watch over the guests on a day-to-day basis. This week, Quoth the Raven is going to explore the history behind gargoyles while acknowledging their many adaptations throughout history! For as long as I can remember this was the first time I saw a depiction of a “gargoyle” and while Victor, Hugo, and Laverne played integral roles in Quasimodo’s life and my enjoyment of the film at a young age, I was surprised to learn later on the true functionality and purpose of a gargoyle. Whatever their true origins these awesome visual images have been with man for hundreds of years and they still seem to catch and inspire the imagination of modern society.When you hear the term gargoyle what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it’s the Disney animated classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Or are they representations of deep rooted elements within human nature and expressions of man's subconscious fears or attempts to define or embody evils of the world into manageable elements. The Pagan artists who carved these were inspired by their culture and were the last vestiges of paganism from an age when god would be heard in trees and river plains. Many gargoyles are similar to the legends and figures of the ancients Celts, such as the Green Man or Jack of the Green. Adrienne Mayor believes they were inspired by the skeletal remains and bones of dinosaurs, found by Greek and Roman palaeontologists. It is believed that they were used to ward of evil and to act as guardians of the church to keep the terrible spirits of evil away and were inspired from a passage written in the bible. There are many theories has to how and why medieval architects and stone carvers developed gargoyles. It was born in Lycia and was slain by Bellerophon.
According to Homer it has a lion's head, a goat's body, and a dragon's tail. Was a fabulous monster in Greek mythology. Chimæra (From Greek khimaira, 'she-goat')
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