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The head is cabbage. What's happening?

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posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 03:33 AM
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Hi, ATS members!

You know, that I sometimes like to bring you some historical paradoxes. Now again this case))) So!

Here is a 16th century painting by two Flemish artists Cornelis van Dahlem and Jan van Vechelen:



To begin with, we will consider the work without any analysis, let's take a look at it with a simple philistine glance. So, in front of us is a room in pleasant, soft shades, with which the Dutch worked, everything is traditional here. Artists convey perspective well, it is clear where the foreground goes into the background, the picture is full of characters and a variety of actions.

The essence of these actions, however, is not very clear to me. The first impression is this: people cut off their heads and plant cabbage instead. Strange, but even stranger - not bloodthirsty at all. It's amazing how such a plot can be almost pleasing to the eye. It is devoid of realistic details, there is no blood, torment and pain.

The title of the picture reads like this: "The Legend of the Eklo baker." But how this relates to what is happening is not entirely clear. It's all about local mythology. The fact is that the Dutch have a legend, quite harmless and popular in the 16th century.

According to her, if a person did not like his appearance, he could change it. To do this, you just need to go to the bakery in the city of Eklo and ask to bake a new head to replace the old, ugly one.

Of course, then you will have to cut off your head and put it in the oven, make your face again from butter and flour. And so that in the absence of a head the body does not yearn and hurt, a head of cabbage is temporarily applied in its place.

However, there is a threat in this simple ritual: if the head is badly baked, the person will then have difficulty thinking, and if, on the contrary, overheats, he will become reckless.

The artists showed all the stages of working on a new face, look at the sequence of actions: the head is detached, folded into a wicker basket, a head of cabbage takes its place, and then a new head. In the background there is a huge oven in which specimens are baked, bakers in white aprons and turbans scurry about the room, and through an open door we see a cozy street in the Belgian city of Ecklo.

My question is: How true is the image? How realistic was it in the 16th century? And how does this correspond to modern transgender surgical changes in the human body?

Thanks.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 04:10 AM
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I do not know...but the practice must still be happening today judging by all the cabbage heads who can't think for themselves we see and hear almost everyday !!
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posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 05:51 AM
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In the back center is the dude in the red coat giving the woman a freshly baked man’s head? Is this the first documentation of a sex change procedure? a reply to: RussianTroll



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 05:52 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

Meandering story abruptly stops with interesting juxtapisition.

Body dysmorphia. Its all the same thing.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 05:54 AM
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originally posted by: Buvvy
In the back center is the dude in the red coat giving the woman a freshly baked man’s head? Is this the first documentation of a sex change procedure? a reply to: RussianTroll


With a certain imagination - perhaps)))



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 05:57 AM
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originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: RussianTroll

Meandering story abruptly stops with interesting juxtapisition.

Body dysmorphia. Its all the same thing.


Hmm, Quasimodo Syndrome? Victor Hugo was born for more than 300 years.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:00 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

Here is one he prepared earlier.





posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:04 AM
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originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll

Here is one he prepared earlier.




Wow, dude looks happy))



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:07 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

Leaf him alone he's a bit green around the gills.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:09 AM
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originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: RussianTroll

Leaf him alone he's a bit green around the gills.


And he is not dressed according to the fashion of the 16th century. It turns out that the idea is very attractive and contagious)))



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:21 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll
This link to an art auction site shows a different example of the same kind of composition. Apparently there was a series of them. The spelling of the names on that site is Ecklo, Dalem, Wecheren.


www.bonhams.com...
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posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:23 AM
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a reply to: DISRAELI
Thanks, it turns out to be a very popular story. Maybe the forerunner of vaccination?)))



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:37 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

I notice the floor has black and white tiles, this could suggest links to masonry.

There is no corresponding to modern transgender surgical ops, the push for acceptance of that has more to do with transhumanism and the break down of identify. But that’s another topic.

Calling someone a cabbage is the equivalent of saying brain dead or comatose, I would guess that’s the analogy the artists are trying to convey. That even if it were possible to bake a better looking head for the people that would like it done a cabbage would suit just as well. It’s mocking vanity and ego.

Perhaps it’s where we get the term half baked from too? There’s a lot of half baked ideas going around at the moment, but morons chew it up regardless.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:41 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

It’s 100% true. My ancestors were all Flemish cabbageheads according to 23&Me.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 06:44 AM
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a reply to: surfer_soul
There's also this political "what about the vegetables" joke from the 80's. The story got repeated so much, some people thought it actually happened.




posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 07:29 AM
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I noticed that all the people that have 'in process' of head replacement appear to be praying... I guess I would too.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 09:38 AM
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“It was most often told to the children, who were dissatisfied with their appearance”

geniusbeauty.com...



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 09:46 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

These people are getting something done to them at their own request. Not by force. Weird.



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 09:50 AM
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originally posted by: Kingnothing33
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“It was most often told to the children, who were dissatisfied with their appearance”

geniusbeauty.com...


"However, the head could fail to bake, and then one could get an idiot"

Don't you think that now, due to the shortage and high cost of Russian gas, many heads in Europe will be "undercooked"?)))))))))))))))))))



posted on Oct, 15 2021 @ 09:53 AM
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a reply to: RussianTroll

"If your eye offends you pluck it out"

"If your right hand offends you cut it off"

And so forth



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