MasterJm
Trying to understand the meaning of the following. Could anyone help me ? What exactly is the sadistic aspect to this card ?
"Though the face of the Hierophant appears benignant and smiling, and the child himself seems glad with wanton innocence, it is hard to deny that in the expression of the initiator is something mysterious, even sinister. He seems to be enjoying a very secret joke at somebody's expense. There is a distinctly sadistic aspect to this card. Not unnaturally, since it derives from the Legend of Pasiphae, the prototype of all the legends of Bull-gods. The still persist in such religions as Shavaism, and (after multiple degradations) in Christianity itself".
"Though the face of the Hierophant appears benignant and smiling, and the child himself seems glad with wanton innocence, it is hard to deny that in the expression of the initiator is something mysterious, even sinister. He seems to be enjoying a very secret joke at somebody's expense. There is a distinctly sadistic aspect to this card. Not unnaturally, since it derives from the Legend of Pasiphae, the prototype of all the legends of Bull-gods. The still persist in such religions as Shavaism, and (after multiple degradations) in Christianity itself".