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The Hanged Man, Il traditore (VS)

symbolism

  • hanged man, upside down, sacrifice
  • martyr, redemption. judas → sacrifice
  • cardinal sin, dispair
  • VS → hanged man isn't showing suffering, unemotional, calm
  • triumph of hope over despair VS
  • later cards → material trappings, regrets of deceit in return for riches
  • embodiment of human sacrifice
  • RW → shift of emphasis from sacrifice/redemption to enlightenment
  • ES → redemption of judas iscariot, divine sophia

plant connections

  • Mandragora officinarum, mandrake, poisonous, hallucinogenic (atropine, scopolamine, hyoscyamine), blindness, myth of small screaming man being pulled out of the ground (extraction required 2 men and a dog), believed to grow in the semen and urine ejaculated by a hanged man. Mandrake_(plant)
  • tree orchids, hanging from trees (alt. hanging mosses and lichens)

colours

  • cabbage green
  • purple
  • brown

other

note: work in progress for PARN. not general reference

major arcana

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