@scallopdelion.bsky.social
Artist, designer. Maker of LOGOS DIVINÆ. https://logos-divinae.com
I will look into him—thank you for the recommendation!
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Not often, actually—in the Renaissance JHWH begins to adopt Zeus's iconography. Jesus has a number of polytheist iconographies embedded into his visual tradition. Here's a few examples: Christ as Good Shepherd = Hermes Ram-Bearer, Jesus in chariot = Sol, Pantocrator = Serapis minus his modius crown
10.07.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0technically "Fat" Buddha (Maitreya or Budai) and Agnes Dei (lamb of God) are the "future forms" of these two prophets, in their respective "second comings."
Early depictions of both figures are Hellenistic—modern Christ's oldest representation is likely the Pantocrator of St. Catherines of Sinai.
LOGOS DIVINÆ Card backs
LOGOS DIVINÆ cards flying out of the packaging
LOGOS DIVINÆ in-game artwork of the god MEHEN
Arrangement of LOGOS DIVINÆ cards that forms a mural
Celebrating #portfolioday for the work I've done on LOGOS DIVINÆ—a project five years in the making!
08.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MRARIE love this look💚
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Vice graciously calls LOGOS DIVINÆ a "best in class" playing card game experience!
"It’s a wildly ambitious venture that hits the mark without fail, sacrificing nothing along the way in the pursuit of making something that holds eternal value."
— @shauncichacki.bsky.social 🙏
Aces represent causes. They are pure potential and the earliest lessons of humanity. In LOGOS DIVINÆ, they’re:
TAGES—the Etruscan child prophet made of clay♦️
KHEPRI—the scarab who raises the sun at dawn♣️
PROTEUS—the truthful Old Man of the Sea❤️
NYX—goddess of night, second ruler of the world♠️
I made LOGOS DIVINÆ as a way to encapsulate the metaphysical facets of our world and our selves in a way that is more intuitive than the tarot traditions before it.
Please take a look at my Kickstarter to learn more.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sca...
#tarot #indiegames #playingcards #tabletop
Robert Fludd's cosmic man.
The Hermetic adage "that the above is of the below" is echoed in the tarot, where each facet of the macrocosm—zodiac, planets, elements—are reflected in the microcosm of the world, our bodies and being. With macranthropy and RNG in a shuffled deck, tarot reading brings our aspect(s) to attention.
01.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0With the exception of the Marseille deck, most popular tarot decks are "Neo-Hermetic" in origin.
Waite/Smith's deck incorporated 19th cent. Hermetic-Christian imagery. Crowley/Harris mix modern art with their own philosophy of Thelema. The two were on opposite sides of an Hermetic order's schism.
Cosmic associations found in various Hermetic tarot formats.
16th cent. Milanese trionfi cards, which would become "tarocco" or "tarocchi" before becoming "tarot" in French.
Initiation societies were underground orgs with spiritual & philosophical overtones in the wake of the 30 Years War.
Inspired by fortune telling, alchemy, & perhaps Giordano Bruno's memory—they embed cosmic associations into "trionfi" playing cards, which were developed in the 15th cent. Milan.
Mamluk, Italian, French, and Hermetic imagery associated with the Ace of Clubs (Bastoni, Wands, Rods etc.)
As an Italian-American game designer, I knew tarot suits were derived from the playing cards my cousins used overseas, (the Piacentine format is my fav) What I didn't know about tarot's occult dimensions—was that it all suddenly emerged in the Enlightenment Era—between two Revolutions 🇺🇸🃏🇫🇷
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Juno artwork inspired by Etruscan and Roman artifacts.
Isis artwork inspired by Roman sculpture and Apuleius's The Golden Ass.
Over decades working in and on games & reading everything I could find about myth across my life, I've become an expert on the iconography of the gods, their cult centers, and their roles in shaping the world according to ancient poets, prophets, and philosophers.
01.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I made a new type of playing card format called LOGOS DIVINÆ—it's an attempt to usher in an era of folk playing card games.
I'm of the opinion that cartomancy, (tarot reading) should be reclaimed as a game. It's been tricky to articulate what this is and is not, but I'll try in this thread. (1/7)
