Hybridology

Human-animal composites were part of a menagerie of wonders within the European culture since Antiquity. In medieval texts, monster hybrids were representations of collective fears, desires, and sins - a mix of religion, politics, pseudoscience, and magic. A monster is a hybrid phenomenon. It represents a category crisis that threatens the integrity of classification - the subject matter of Hybridology. This work treats mythological hybrid body as a set of data and is a taxonomic classification system. Representations of hybrids were reconstructed in 3D graphic software. As in the reconstruction of extinct species, the imagery was treated as a set of morphological characters (for example, absence/presence of tail, genitals, scales) and aspects of behavior based on medieval bestiary literature. Visit Hybridology website >