This image looks a little suspect, but when you look at other woodcuts of the Tubulayou can see this action a little more clearly (and from the side)—and what they reveal is Mother Church rewarding the supplicant with a crown.  This is more clearly seen below, in the 1551 versin of teh morality play by Johann Kramer (and published in Munchen);

This image looks a little suspect, but when you look at other woodcuts of the Tubulayou can see this action a little more clearly (and from the side)—and what they reveal is Mother Church rewarding the supplicant with a crown.  This is more clearly seen below, in the 1551 versin of teh morality play by Johann Kramer (and published in Munchen);

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