firemaiden
Rosanne said:I cannot believe I have never seen this before! I even have a framed HP on Art paper (without the Letters on the pillars, curtesy of Fulgour) and have never taken this in. So HP is facing the door into the temple in this card- her back to the sea! I too, have been using this deck for years and years- funny I can find no mention of it in the many books about RWS. Thank you levannah.
~Rosanne
Ah yes! Thank you for pointing this out. I think Umbrae and I should have made more of this on our thread about the HP....
The sea is behind her, because she is guarding the exit from King Solomon's Temple, not the entrance - - once you pass her and leave the temple, you are at the "sea" - ...
Then he made the molten sea: it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completley. Under its brim were panels all around it [...]Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths" [Kings 7:23-26]