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Solar yellow in colour and the other half of the Moon, the Sun card features another, calmer face accompanied by the head of a falcon. Perhaps the falcon is Horus?
The card is covered in glyphs of the sun, from the realistic to the symbolic. The edge of the sun is lined with Roman numerals – not sure what that means, but I am inclined that it has something to do with a clock? Time?
There is a Mayan or Aztec quality to this card and the previous Moon card. The Maya were magnificent astronomers and keepers of Time. It brings to mind Quetzacoatl, a Mesoamerican feathered serpent god. Seen as the morning star, his brother is the evening star. From Wikipedia:
As the Moon is the watery mystery of the Unconscious, the Sun is the lighter side, the Conscious mind.
As introduced in the Star by the symbol on the angel’s dress, the Star, Sun and Moon together make the sky – which all seems to merge in the coming World card.
I seem to have jumped all over the place here!
Thoughts?
Solar yellow in colour and the other half of the Moon, the Sun card features another, calmer face accompanied by the head of a falcon. Perhaps the falcon is Horus?
Wikipedia said:Since Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the sun and moon.
The card is covered in glyphs of the sun, from the realistic to the symbolic. The edge of the sun is lined with Roman numerals – not sure what that means, but I am inclined that it has something to do with a clock? Time?
There is a Mayan or Aztec quality to this card and the previous Moon card. The Maya were magnificent astronomers and keepers of Time. It brings to mind Quetzacoatl, a Mesoamerican feathered serpent god. Seen as the morning star, his brother is the evening star. From Wikipedia:
Quetzalcoatl is one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, he was often considered the god of the morning star, and his twin brother Xolotl was the evening star (Venus). As the morning star he was known by the title Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, meaning "lord of the star of the dawn." He was known as the inventor of books and the calendar, the giver of maize (corn) to mankind, and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection. Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests and the title of the twin Aztec high priests.
As the Moon is the watery mystery of the Unconscious, the Sun is the lighter side, the Conscious mind.
As introduced in the Star by the symbol on the angel’s dress, the Star, Sun and Moon together make the sky – which all seems to merge in the coming World card.
I seem to have jumped all over the place here!
Thoughts?