I was at one of those $2 bargain basement type shops looking for candles when i met him. Now Im not usually your garden ornament type o gal but this particular gargoyle caught my eye, he has such a nice face, despite the fangs and protruding tongue. So for six bucks I bought him home. Im tempted to have him inside cos he's so cool but his energy is definitely garden orientated, so for now he's under a lilly pilly tree amidst the straplike leaves of grasses.
Gargoyles are traditionally functionality merged with imagination. When we see them on church rofftops they generally have a hollow inside that channels water away from the mortar of the stonework hence preventing its erosion over time. Usually the water comes out of the creatures mouth but I did see one gargoyle who was mooning the world and the water came out his arse.
It has been said they were used to scare common folk into church showing that such beings couldnt get inside churches but I have a feeling that pagan stonemasons were having fun with it whatever their officially stated purpose. Their creatures hark back to gods and godesses of old such as the sheela ne gig figures, the depiction of a woman with an exaggerated vulva perhaps a fertility goddess or simply a lustfull hag.
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