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The Hierophant (V) in the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Hierophant (V), alternatively depicted as The Pope or The High Priest (as a counterpart to "The High Priestess") is the fifth card of the Major Arcana in occult Tarot decks used in divination.
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The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by William Rider & Son in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The card pictured is the Wheel Of Fortune card from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. A.E. Waite was a key figure in the development of the tarot in line with the Hermetic magical-religious system which was also being developed at the time, [1] and this deck, as well as being in common use today, also forms the basis for a number of other modern ...
Five of Wands or Five of Batons is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the " Minor Arcana ". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games . [ 1 ]
The Strength card was originally named Fortitude, and accompanies two of the other cardinal virtues in the Major Arcana: Temperance and Justice.. The older decks had two competing symbolisms: one featured a woman holding or breaking a stone pillar, and the other featured a person, either male or female, subduing a lion.
Two of Wands from the Rider–Waite Tarot deck. The Two of Wands is a Minor Arcana tarot card.. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
Votive relief depicting the hierophant of the Eleusinian Mysteries addressing Demeter and Persephone, 2nd century AD, Ancient Agora of Athens Museum Greece.. A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης, romanized: hierophántēs) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. [1]