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Frieda Harris on the pattern in the background of the six of swords
"The swords are lying on a fencer's diagram (14th century) which was worked out scientifically to show the positions in which a fencer can stand and be invulnerable"
I know this thread is for a different card, but I thought this quote might shed a bit of light on the thought processes going on in relation to the Creation of the backgrounds to the swords suit.
They also get referred to as swastikas. An encyclopaedia of symbols I have says of the swastika that it's shape gives the impression of circular movement, maybe in this suit as the movement of air?
"The swords are lying on a fencer's diagram (14th century) which was worked out scientifically to show the positions in which a fencer can stand and be invulnerable"
I know this thread is for a different card, but I thought this quote might shed a bit of light on the thought processes going on in relation to the Creation of the backgrounds to the swords suit.
They also get referred to as swastikas. An encyclopaedia of symbols I have says of the swastika that it's shape gives the impression of circular movement, maybe in this suit as the movement of air?