An analysis of all of the elements included in the Death tarot card:
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Hades and Cerberus
God of the Underworld, Death |
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Feathered hat
the killing of enemy combatants, a nod to the wealthy |
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skeleton
Death, mortality, resurrection, "all is vanity" |
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Broken mirror
Reflects negative/positive actions, youth & beauty |
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Pope's mitre
- Ecclesiastical and temporal power
- A sign of victory
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Coins
Wealth |
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Scythe
- linked with allegories of death
- "all curved weapons are lunar and feminine symbols, whereas straight ones are masculine and and solar...curves suggest the means to an end and passivity"
- incorporates the ambiguity of the beginning as the end
- "soul harvester"
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