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Norma, the high priestess of the Druid temple, who had two children by Pollione, the Roman proconsul of Gaul, breaking her Druid chastity vows, discovers that her lover is now in love with her friend, the young Druid priestess Adalgisa. Norma tries to convince Pollione to give up Adalgisa and return to her, but he refuses.
The High Priestess (II) is the second Major Arcana card in cartomantic Tarot decks. It is based on the 2nd trump of Tarot card packs . In the first Tarot pack with inscriptions, the 18th-century woodcut Tarot de Marseilles , this figure is crowned with the Papal tiara and labelled La Papesse , the Popess , a possible reference to the legend of ...
If you pull the High Priestess tarot card in a reading, here's what it means, including the upright and reversed interpretations as well as some keywords.
La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city in the jungles of Africa. [1] Opar is portrayed as a surviving colony of ancient Atlantis in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages.
A divination tray on which cowrie shells rests, as are used for Ifá divination. Ifá or Fá is a divination system originating from Yorubaland in West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people although is also practised by followers of West African Vodun and in African diasporic religions like Cuban Santería.
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He is an exoteric figure, in contrast to the esoteric symbolism of The High Priestess. [2] Reversed, the Hierophant can be interpreted as standing for unorthodoxy, originality, and gullibility. [7] According to A.E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Hierophant card carries several divinatory associations: 5.
High Priestess by right of birth, she is revered as a goddess incarnate by the native Cretans. Gentle and timid at first, she falls in love with Theseus and helps him escape from Crete. When Theseus sees her hidden capacity for violence as inherited from the "rotten blood" of a decadent dynasty, he is sickened and loses his love for her.