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| One of over a hundred painted panels on the ceiling of a Romanesque church at Zillich. |
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| But the panels that I have selected here are merely the sequence of sea beasts. |
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| In the time these beasts were painted the earth was thought to be flat. |
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| The land was thought to be surrounded by mysterious and unexplored oceans. |
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| Protected by these beasts whose shape and size could only be guessed. Some of us would be happy for the world to return to a state something like that. |
