Today I clicked for a random /x/ thread and got this one from 2020:
Update: Immediately after publishing this, I checked Arts & Letters Daily. The first link on the page was to a review of a biography of Vermeer.
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I'm reading John C. Wright's Starquest series and one of the races (Cervine) are anthropomorphic Deer who "wear horns of pride"
Of the two images of "deer humanoids", the upper is clearly female and it is plausible to suppose that the lower is male. Note that the female image is bordered all around by what might be described as a teal color. When we were dealing recently with the Hermit card from the "Tarot of the Divine" set, I had a look again at the website dedicated to same, and was reminded of the prevalence of the color teal in that deck. It may not be quite as obvious in the Hermit card (though even there there's some trace), but the deck as a whole bears that out. Point being, the teal of the doe/woman image constitutes, I think, a parallel to the Hermit card.
https://www.yoshiyoshitani.com/
Now, if you look at the background of the male image, you see two beams-- one blue, one green-- emanating from what might well be characterized as a stained glass window. These two color-beams are reminiscent of the "Divine Mercy" image of Jesus. There, the beams are white and red-- which, if fused, would eventuate presumably in a pink or fuchsia color. (I recently made whimsical reference to "a fuchsia hart".) Here, in the image of the man/deer, were the colors to be fused, they would likely result in a cyan or teal effect. Cyan has been in the sync-stream before, and teal would form a connection to the Hermit card. If fuchsia's component parts emblematize mercy, then what about cyan's or teal's? We can at least say that it isn't mercy, and that would accord with the man/deer's (albeit skeletal) redoubtable appearence.
Of course, the man/deer can readily be identified with the hermit and the hart of the Hermit card-- they have merged. I commented recently that the hermit could be conceived to hunt the hart; perhaps the man/deer hybrid represents a successful hunt. What now? Perhaps the man/deer must seek his female deer-humanoid complement. And please recall that the sync involving the Hermit card was that William had read in Ms. Berg's book that when one sees a white hart, a portal to another world opens. Soon after, the Hermit card with its white hart entered the stream. Is the merger of hermit and hart skeletonized (perhaps representing the barest essence-- or maybe eating the flesh-- thereof), coupled with forces other than mercy, somehow that other world?
I must add a postscript to my previous comment, which is that, in that comment-- going on my memory as well as the fact that it had been referenced in the recent "red and white" segment of the sync-stream-- I characterized the "Divine Mercy" image of Jesus as featuring two color-beams, one white and one red. I subsequently went back and looked at one of the "Divine Mercy" images, and it would seem that the color beams are pink or fuchsia and white-- which, if fused, would, I suppose, result in an even lighter shade of pink. And maybe that reinforces the idea of divine mercy.
Allow me also to say that, in my prior comment, I made reference a couple of times to "mercy" simpliciter when I ought rather to have said "divine mercy". Perhaps there is some scope in the other world for a mercy not divine.
After opening Wade's link, the artist's version of the Eight of Wands caught my eye because the bird on it looked rather crow-like, and that bore out. I was unfamiliar with that myth, but some Australian Aboriginal stories also attribute the crow's colour to being burnt; the second tale given in the relevant link below even suggests the crow was white beforehand.
yoshiyoshitani.store/products/eight-of-wands-tarot-print
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_crow
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_(Australian_Aboriginal_mythology)
Probing the artist's site further, I found one photo for the Tarot set has its guidebook open to a page including the Hermit. It reads in part, "In the Celtic myth, the elusive White Stag encourages people to drop everything and pursue spirituality." That'd give a different meaning to Wade's line of thought with the human/deer hybrids.
The idea of a hunter reminded me of part of my email from May 27, but then I've been looking back over the whole convo from around that time -- the other day, I was nudged to resume exploring the main concept we were discussing. Wade's use of the word "merger" seems relevant this time. I'll let you know the results when I can.
Oops, forgot the link to the page with the guidebook photo: yoshiyoshitani.store/products/tarot-of-the-divine-deck
Re: the male deer/human hybrid, etc. The fact that the "merged" being is skeletal lends itself easily to a Christian (and thus "spiritual") interpretation whereby its "flesh" has dropped off.
Yet-- could this be an example of a "secular" picture that has the appearence-- the artifice-- of a religious, spiritual, or "para"-normal, picture?
William,
Note that the girl with the pearl earring and the deer
are 'merged/cojoined ( Rebis ) .
Different but the same.
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