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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.
A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης, romanized: hierophántēs) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. [1] As such, a hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.
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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.
Gevurah or Geburah (Hebrew: גְּבוּרָה, romanized: Gəvūrā, Tiberian: Găḇūrā, lit. 'strength'), [1] [2] is the fifth sephirah in the kabbalistic Tree of Life, and it is the second of the emotive attributes of the sephirot. It sits below Binah, across from Chesed and above Hod.
There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered). Although the cards correspond to the trump cards of a pack used for playing tarot card game , [ 1 ] the term 'Major Arcana' is rarely used by players and is typically associated exclusively with use for ...
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 ...
The card that contrasts the most between the two decks is the Death card. In the Rider-Waite deck, the Death card depicts the personified figure of Death as an armored knight on a horse, carrying a banner; whereas in the BOTA deck, this figure is depicted as a bare skeleton with a scythe, with a red sky in the background, being based upon the ...