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This is interesting to me, immersed in Death as I am present. It does show the connection between Death and the Fool, as any new endeavor carried within it the seeds of its own termination (for better or worse, of course). Orion is also an example of Hubris, as he boasted that he would kill all living things, and was eventually killed by Scorpio, i.e., Death.
Wasn't he resurrected again? By Asclepius (however it's spelt ?) or Opheichus - whose constellation stands on the ecliptic next to the Scorpion (but has been removed from the zodiac ... although the image can be seen in the World / Universe card ... which is no longer attributed to a zodiac position but a 'planet').
In the old calendar, Kislev was indeed the ninth month, as the month of Passover was the first. However since then, Tishrey was set as the first month, the month of the harvest. There is probably a reason for this, but I don't know it for certain.
Oh, okay, so we will remove that old etymological calandar reference and stick with the fool one
Probably unrelated, but I wonder if the Inquisition has any connection to the dog, through the Dominicans, who were powerful in the order, known as the Domini Canis, a play on words.
I see a connection between their dynamic and Orion's. Both trying to wipe out the 'other world' view.
Orion, in this context, seems like Hercules (see my thread in spirituality) in that they represent the literalist materialist rational ego projected in to the mythic/ daimonic realm. These myths show averse reaction to the initiatory process (as opposed to the accepting reactions of other heroes, gods and shamans) ; killing the wild animals ... attacking his beloved (a symbol of his own soul), etc. The inquisition seems one of those strange breakouts in society where the mythic is SOOO repressed by the literalist interpretation that the demonic world breaks out and manifests in the 'literalist rational ego projection as a 'demonic projection' which is then totally irrational (but totally literalist/rational in its own context ... i.e. an inversion) .... and THAT seems a pretty close definition of the Inquisition .