Re: Unnamed
Posted: 30 Jul 2008, 06:53
They didn't seem too accepting of the Black Plague.
Hi MaryJane, welcome to the forum!MaryJane wrote:In the Middle Ages... in fact up to only a couple of centuries ago, death was not feared, but accepted. It is only recently that death has become something which is "forbidden". People in those days may have been scared of damnation thanks to the scaremongering of the church authorities, but they were not scared of death itself.
So I do not think that it was out of any superstition that the card was not named.
It would seem logical that if there is a card that is unnumbered and a card that is unnamed, that the two cards are linked somehow. I would think that any ponderations on the unnamed card should not be done alone, but in parallel with the unnumbered card. (As should be the case with any card that has curious parallels with another card in the pack, for instance the Lover and The Moon, or the Pope and The Devil.) I believe the cards should not be read in isolation but always looked at as one would look at pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Alone, a jigsaw puzzle piece has no meaning. It is when it is put together with the other pieces that a picture appears.
WHAT?debra wrote:Art. It's art, Robert. Artists do things like that. ;)