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This Emperor is by far the most elegant, empathetic and this is by far my favourite from any deck.
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There is the wisdom of the old warrior in this deck. At first I wondered about the dragonfly on his head with a tail that looked like paintings of Egyptian live papyrus. The watery fields of papyrus would have been the home of the dragonfly which the ancient Egyptian warrior admired for its speed and agility.
The typical Aries red is present in this card with a bit of colour in every part, including the eyes of the fish decorating the sword. If this a reference to AC's Thoth interpretation of the Emperor having the letter Tzaddi (fish hook)? Or is it because his path is the path between the king and the prince, Chokmah and Tiphareth and it is a sideways reference to Christ?
The gold of the Sun/Son is in the Emperor's jewelry, sword and the crown on his forehead. I am going to assume the three stones on his ring are alchemical, perhaps representing salt sulpher and mercury? Perhaps someone else could elaborate on that?
This Emperor makes me think of Father Time and I accidentally looked up the Titan Cronus (Saturn) instead.This interesting tidbit came up in Wikipedia:
I am under the impression that this was Marie's first and most important card, and like me, her soul card. So perhaps this "El" is significant?
On the far right of the card, the clouds and birds seem to make another face, a ghostly mirror image. Because the Emperor of the Qabalistic Tarot is Intellect, I am inclined to think that the water of previous cards is transformed into mist by the heat of Aries and Mars' fire into the Air of Intellect.
I am uncertain, but it seems there is a mountain behind him as well.
Well that gets things started anyway!
http://www.mary-el.com/04.html
There is the wisdom of the old warrior in this deck. At first I wondered about the dragonfly on his head with a tail that looked like paintings of Egyptian live papyrus. The watery fields of papyrus would have been the home of the dragonfly which the ancient Egyptian warrior admired for its speed and agility.
The typical Aries red is present in this card with a bit of colour in every part, including the eyes of the fish decorating the sword. If this a reference to AC's Thoth interpretation of the Emperor having the letter Tzaddi (fish hook)? Or is it because his path is the path between the king and the prince, Chokmah and Tiphareth and it is a sideways reference to Christ?
The gold of the Sun/Son is in the Emperor's jewelry, sword and the crown on his forehead. I am going to assume the three stones on his ring are alchemical, perhaps representing salt sulpher and mercury? Perhaps someone else could elaborate on that?
This Emperor makes me think of Father Time and I accidentally looked up the Titan Cronus (Saturn) instead.This interesting tidbit came up in Wikipedia:
Wikipedia said:El, the Phoenician Cronus
When Hellenes encountered Phoenicians and, later, Hebrews, they identified the Semitic El, by interpretatio graeca, with Cronus. The association was recorded ca. AD 100 by Philo of Byblos' Phoenician history, as reported in Eusebius' Præparatio Evangelica I.10.16.[15] Philo's account, ascribed by Eusebius to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan War Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, indicates that Cronus was originally a Canaanite ruler who founded Byblos and was subsequently deified. This version gives his alternate name as Elus or Ilus, and states that in the 32nd year of his reign, he emasculated, slew and deified his father Epigeius or Autochthon "whom they afterwards called Uranus". It further states that after ships were invented, Cronus, visiting the 'inhabitable world', bequeathed Attica to his own daughter Athena, and Egypt to Thoth the son of Misor and inventor of writing.[16]
I am under the impression that this was Marie's first and most important card, and like me, her soul card. So perhaps this "El" is significant?
On the far right of the card, the clouds and birds seem to make another face, a ghostly mirror image. Because the Emperor of the Qabalistic Tarot is Intellect, I am inclined to think that the water of previous cards is transformed into mist by the heat of Aries and Mars' fire into the Air of Intellect.
I am uncertain, but it seems there is a mountain behind him as well.
Well that gets things started anyway!