The Emperor and the Hierophant are done!The two-headed Emperor faces east and west simultaneously, with the world as represented by a royal T-O map in front of him.  The T-O (or Beatus) map is an extremely basic conception of the ancient world which divides it simply into three zones separated by oceans: Africa, Asia, and Europe, with Jerusalem as the imaginative center.The Hierophant is a history-keeper instructing children; she holds the Ishango Bone in her hand, which may be the oldest known record of mathematical skill in pre-modern man, and behind her are quipu ropes, an ancient method of recording numbers and information.Back sometime tomorrow with the Lovers!
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The Emperor and the Hierophant are done!The two-headed Emperor faces east and west simultaneously, with the world as represented by a royal T-O map in front of him.  The T-O (or Beatus) map is an extremely basic conception of the ancient world which divides it simply into three zones separated by oceans: Africa, Asia, and Europe, with Jerusalem as the imaginative center.The Hierophant is a history-keeper instructing children; she holds the Ishango Bone in her hand, which may be the oldest known record of mathematical skill in pre-modern man, and behind her are quipu ropes, an ancient method of recording numbers and information.Back sometime tomorrow with the Lovers!
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The Emperor and the Hierophant are done!

The two-headed Emperor faces east and west simultaneously, with the world as represented by a royal T-O map in front of him.  The T-O (or Beatus) map is an extremely basic conception of the ancient world which divides it simply into three zones separated by oceans: Africa, Asia, and Europe, with Jerusalem as the imaginative center.

The Hierophant is a history-keeper instructing children; she holds the Ishango Bone in her hand, which may be the oldest known record of mathematical skill in pre-modern man, and behind her are quipu ropes, an ancient method of recording numbers and information.

Back sometime tomorrow with the Lovers!

So while I’m selling the Lazy Afternoon and just after I finished the Sapphist Lenormand (more on that as news warrants) I decided that I would relax a bit and enjoy my success… …by starting a new tarot deck. Masochist in training, over here. It doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ve been calling it the Lazy Afternoon’s Big Sister, since it’s done in the same medium, but is more technically skilled and symbolically mature. Clockwise from top left is Loki as the Magician, dog-headed St. Christopher as the Fool, an owl-woman in Afganistan as the High Priestess, and a woman with a cornucopia as the Empress. Dog-headed St. Christopher is my favorite obscure Catholic myth, and the short version goes like this: St Christopher was once called Reprobus, and he was of the race of dog-headed men who ate human flesh, but were considered to have a soul because they raised animals and so forth.  Seeing the injustices perpetrated against the Christians by the Romans, he had a crisis of faith and converted.  He was said to have great beastly fangs like a boar, and long flowing hair, and to have been handsome of countenance despite his monstrous face.  The most famous legend about St. Christopher is depicted on his traditional medal, and says that he was an extraordinarily strong man, and when one day was asked by a child to carry it across the river, he found himself struggling as if the child weighed ten times what it should.  The child revealed itself to be Christ, and said that Christopher struggled because he carried the weight of the whole world on his shoulders. Fair warning!  This deck is going to be…mildly eccentric. More cards to come soon.  Enjoy.  :)
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So while I’m selling the Lazy Afternoon and just after I finished the Sapphist Lenormand (more on that as news warrants) I decided that I would relax a bit and enjoy my success…

…by starting a new tarot deck.

Masochist in training, over here.

It doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ve been calling it the Lazy Afternoon’s Big Sister, since it’s done in the same medium, but is more technically skilled and symbolically mature.

Clockwise from top left is Loki as the Magician, dog-headed St. Christopher as the Fool, an owl-woman in Afganistan as the High Priestess, and a woman with a cornucopia as the Empress.

Dog-headed St. Christopher is my favorite obscure Catholic myth, and the short version goes like this: St Christopher was once called Reprobus, and he was of the race of dog-headed men who ate human flesh, but were considered to have a soul because they raised animals and so forth.  Seeing the injustices perpetrated against the Christians by the Romans, he had a crisis of faith and converted.  He was said to have great beastly fangs like a boar, and long flowing hair, and to have been handsome of countenance despite his monstrous face.  The most famous legend about St. Christopher is depicted on his traditional medal, and says that he was an extraordinarily strong man, and when one day was asked by a child to carry it across the river, he found himself struggling as if the child weighed ten times what it should.  The child revealed itself to be Christ, and said that Christopher struggled because he carried the weight of the whole world on his shoulders.

Fair warning!  This deck is going to be…mildly eccentric.

More cards to come soon.  Enjoy.  :)