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Major Arcana - 12
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