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Generalized Art Post #2

Follow up to Generalized Art Post #1, which is getting long (and probably long to load as well).

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I've really been enjoying seeing the creativity of those of you who make art & graphics. :) Thank you for sharing your works!

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I don't know about the RPG specifically but I assumed it was a generalized jeng-zai illustration (cf. Machineries of Tarot--uh, when Stephanie gets back from vacation I've got to ask her about putting up a full list of the cards so that people don't go crazy trying to extract them via readings seeded by pseudorandom number generator...).

omg yay that's exciting!

Yeah, this is what you get when you cross jeng-zai with the Rosenwald Tarot (and the limitations of my linocut skills; I need a finer round gouge or to use actual wood or both).

(Is there a map from the usual Tarot suits to jeng-zai suits?)

[Not exactly? If I had to pick something, I'd say Roses = Coins, Gears = Pentacles, Eyes = Swords, and Doors = Wands because it's left over...that being said, I only have a fairly cursory knowledge of Tarot lore.

pengwern would probably be the one to ask. I can post a list of all the jeng-zai fortunetelling meanings to the comm if that would be of interest/amusement. ]

[Oh, that's interesting! Roses=Wands, Gears=Pentacles seemed like the obvious matches to me.]

[My thinking was Roses = Andan = rich bastards = wealth/bounty = Cups. I'm sure an argument could be made for Wands though! I usually have to look up the meanings...XD ]

[Ah, I went Wands=Growing Things=Roses.

I used to have the Rider-Waite deck memorized well enough that I could do readings with ordinary playing cards, but I'm much, much too rusty these days.]

I had associated roses with cups for social connections and emotions (4 and 8 of roses), doors for swords because DOOM and actual swords, gears for pentacles, and eyes for wands with planning/wins and losses/things that are on fire? That way it works even if you switch air and fire associations for swords and wands, since the eyes are all fairly cerebral and the Kel are themselves. BUT the only book I've finished so far is the Castle of Crossed Destinies years ago, and not much else.

With playing cards, isn't the set of meanings a bit different? (I ask because I keep longing for pretty playing card decks too.)

The moral is that my personal associations with cups are much more heavily Intuition and The Unconscious & much less about everyday feelings, which is what I get for learning from a manual that was rather too happy about the Golden Dawn (might've been Waite's book, or a 1970s edition of it with some extra introductory matter).

I'm sure there are other traditions for playing cards, but it's easy to match the suits and go from there!

I don't remember what everyone was doing with the invented Rahal traditions, but now I'm worried about the hexarchate's mystics. (the golden dawn I would fight though)

I feel like there must have been a strong Liozh mystical tradition. Some references probably survive in weirder and edgier Andan work.

>_< Too late. (Although there could have been a few of the majors that I missed.)

Oh no, I'm so sorry! Uh...not that I'm likely to make another fake Tarot, but in future you could ask me...I would have shared the list and saved you so much trouble...so sorry...

(aah no, I did things the lazy way by copying batches of the andan spread onto one doc and searching for aces-masters of each suit, while checking to see if there were any majors that I hadn't seen yet. I guessed that there were twenty-two of those? and that each faction had an approximate representative in them :D?)

I wasn't strict about faction representation (handwave: Machineries of Tarot predates the heptarchate and evolved haphazardly throughout), but yeah, 22 Major Arcana, etc.

If you had an order for them, I'd love to see that! (Me when I saw the Scholar reversed was 'frivolity': ah, there's the Shuos.)

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