Necronomicon Tarot - Ace of Disks

cybermancer

Ace of Disks: Matrix of Earth

Here we see a ghoulish hand offering a Disk etched with the pattern of the Elder Seal. I don't have much to say on this card. It screams "TAKE IT!"

The Suit of Disks tells the story of the necromancer and the sorceress, each progressing forward towards greater knowledge. The Ace is the spark, the talisman with the necessary information to begin.

For me this card represents the importance of gathering your skills and tools to begin your research and growth. All we need is the seed or the inspiration and it may come from strange sources.
 

Sanctum_Priest

It's good to see an Elder seal up close, but I'd like to know what the details represent. Any ideas/knowledge out there?
 

cybermancer

Sanctum_Priest said:
It's good to see an Elder seal up close, but I'd like to know what the details represent. Any ideas/knowledge out there?

Here's some additional information on the Elder Seal from some different sources:

Excerpt from the Elder Seal entry from Donald Tyson's The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon:

"A symbol or glyph that according to the Necronomicon is engraved on stones of the lost city of the Elder Race on the high plateau of Antarctica, and also on stones of the city on the sunken island of R'lyeh where Cthulhu and his spawn lie dreaming. It is not called the Elder Seal in the Necronomicon, but is referred to as "their seal" - the seal of the invisible Old Ones."


Excerpt from the chapter "The Great Seal of the Old Ones, Known as the Elder Seal" from Donald Tyson's Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred:

"It has been called by some the Elder Seal, but by others the Great Seal of the Old Ones. Soul travelers who journey to R'lyeh may see it upon the closed gate of Cthulu's house, where he lies within his tomb dreaming. Its form may more readily be depicted than described, but it is somewhat like a branch and somewhat like the pattern in a proof of geometry, having angles and circles set in a precise relationship.

Know you that Yog-Sothoth is the gate and the key, but the Elder Seal is the lock. Created by the Elder Things in the war with Cthulhu and his spawn countless ages prior to the making of man, it has the power to prevent the passage of the Old Ones or their children when placed upon any threshold."

..and finally, the excerpt from H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror:

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. .........

....... The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles?"

A powerful charm indeed. On the Elder Seal, as depicted in the card art, we see a tree-like shape. At the base of the shape, a symbol...at summit of the shape, another symbol and at the end of the five branches between the base and summit, we symbols. All totaled, we have seven symbols in this design and they seem very purposeful.

Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Yig, Cthulhu, Dagon

If you're going to seek the assistance of dark cosmic inter-dimensional forces to expand your own knowledge, you'd better have some protection handy. The last thing you want is to call upon the power of one of these horrors and not be able to send it back.

The gathering of skills and tools in preparation is key for any great undertaking both in this world and in others.
 

Golden Moon

Ace of Disks

A demon from below is handing you a disk with engraved symbols. This disk might be a pendulum to summon this being who is handing you this token. As you can see, the symbols are encrypted into wired patterns that one who is familiar with rising the dead can only know about. The demon who is giving you this token can't hurt you as it can only go as far as a certain limit to hand you the token. The answer is, will you take it or not?