Tarot: High Priestess

[pyraxis]

And she turns to me with her hand extended, her palm is split with a flower, with a flame...
(Suzanne Vega)

She is a rsakk high Grehti and therefore a master of both the delicate and that which consumes.



The strands of shells are a superstition older than most people can remember; it's believed that sleeping under them will protect a priest from evil spirits.

It is actually true. A toren could not shift back out of their insubstantial form within striking range without ending up with strings and shells embedded in their body.

Link to a traditional interpretation of the high priestess card.

Comments

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Oh what a relief that is what you wanted! Kewl :-) :-) :-)

Verdigris said to say it was actually something you said about the flower fairy drawing that helped her work out the arm thang! And yes re the difference between intpretativeness and bad technique :-D

Understood re the fabric colours. But in Europe they used to use mostly woad for that gorgeous indigo-blue colour, I think it might be a related species but one is tropical (Indigo) and the other temperate (woad) but don't quote me on that. I can ask Kite if you want to know for sure. Or google it!
Anyway, I know woad is not at all so rare and expensive as Indigo. But both have brilliantly long-lasting colours. In the old European tapestries you can see all the other colours have faded so much over time but the blues are still incredibly vivid, as it doesn't fade.

And indigo is actually a cloth-preserver, so in old fabrics the blues will be fine while the rest is moth-eaten or disintegrating from age.

In my world too the colours are from different plants than here. And even the "silk" there is from a kind of moss, not from moths, but it is certainly very silky, and similar sort of expense and exclusiveness to here.

I hadn't realised the collar was embroidery, I had presumed it was a kind of lace!

Uh, yeah... don't mind me spouting on my fave subject *sheepish*

- Imoh

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

Nope, not the same family at all!

http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Isatis/index.html

But it is the same chemical substance in both plants that produce the blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria (the bit called Woad and Indigo

And more...
http://www.indigopage.com/herbal/herbal.htm