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The Two of Disks is a loaded card. The face filing the card is green, tendrils of plants grow around its edges. Horns make me think of Nature and knowledge of Nature. But coins are placed over the eyes as was ritually done on the eyes of the dead. The symbolic purpose of the coins was to pay Charon, the ferryman, for passage over the river Styx.
The coins themselves are interesting. The one on the left bears the head of Janus, a two faced God – looking at both the past and the future simultaneously. Janus is known as a God of beginnings and transition – the in-between.
The coin on the left is an Athenian owl. AOE standing for the city of Athens. The reverse of this coin generally depicts the goddess Athena, patron goddess of Athens. The owl was her attribute and she sometimes took its form. Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom and the owl was associated with her traits - wisdom and sometimes death.
Thoughts?
The Two of Disks is a loaded card. The face filing the card is green, tendrils of plants grow around its edges. Horns make me think of Nature and knowledge of Nature. But coins are placed over the eyes as was ritually done on the eyes of the dead. The symbolic purpose of the coins was to pay Charon, the ferryman, for passage over the river Styx.
The coins themselves are interesting. The one on the left bears the head of Janus, a two faced God – looking at both the past and the future simultaneously. Janus is known as a God of beginnings and transition – the in-between.
The coin on the left is an Athenian owl. AOE standing for the city of Athens. The reverse of this coin generally depicts the goddess Athena, patron goddess of Athens. The owl was her attribute and she sometimes took its form. Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom and the owl was associated with her traits - wisdom and sometimes death.
Thoughts?