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Ten of Wands from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Ten of Wands is a Minor Arcana Tarot card of the suit of wands. 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. [1] [2]
Sebile, alternatively written as Sedile, Sebille, Sibilla, Sibyl, Sybilla, and other similar names, is a mythical medieval queen or princess who is frequently portrayed as a fairy or an enchantress in the Arthurian legend and Italian folklore.
The sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the Cumaean Sibyl, located near the Greek city of Naples, whom Virgil's Aeneas consults before his descent to the lower world (Aeneid book VI: 10). Burkert notes (1985, p. 117) that the conquest of Cumae by the Oscans in the fifth century destroyed the tradition, but provides a terminus ante quem for ...
If you pull the Ten of Wands/10 of Wands tarot card in a reading, here's what it means, including upright and reversed interpretations and keywords.
Cumaean Sibyl: Voice: None Sibyl promised Apollo her affections if he gave her as many years of life as the grains of sand she held in her arms. Apollo granted her wish, but Sibyl rejected him. Sibyl indeed lived for a very long time, but eternal youth did not come with it, as she aged and shrank and became helpless.
In Aleister Crowley's 1944 The Book of Thoth, the suit of wands is associated with the action of the Will and the element of fire.The meaning of the suit as a whole focuses on ideas or readings associated with primal energy, spirituality, inspiration, determination, strength, intuition, creativity, ambition, expansion, [4] and original thought.
(Pausanias 10.12.3) The Greeks say she was the daughter of Lamia – a daughter of Poseidon – and Zeus. [1] [2] Euripides mentions the Libyan Sibyl in the prologue of the Lamia. The Greeks further state that she was the first woman to chant oracles; that she lived most of her life in Samos; and that the name Sibyl was given her by the Libyans.
The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which was built by Neleus, the son of Codrus. Erythraean Sibyl as a floor mosaic in the Cathedral of Siena, Italy. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess.