Mutational Alchemy Tarot Deck (copy)

[Naomi]

About the Abrahadabra Institute:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/tai.htm

The entirety of the body of m1thr0s's work you will want to look at first off are here:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/tableofcontents.htm

I will be following m1thr0s's work throughout the course of the project except for the images which are mine own.

The most pertinent charts that I am actually applying directly to this deck are, The P'an Ku mirror, also called Tree Fields 001 or Heaven Descending arrangement found here:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/treefields001.htm

We are also making shit up as we go along, but not without an underlying mathematical integrity. That's just how it works on abrahadabra forums.

The Arcana are applied using the proximity principle which is one of m1thr0s's nifty inventions, it is shown here:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/proximity.principle01.htm

Here are the mathematical proofs of the abrahadabra grid:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/gridproofs001.htm

and finally the twinstar itself laid out over the abra grid:

http://www.abrahadabra.com/twinstar001.htm

enjoy!

[MythMath]

Great first image...


Deck of Thirty-two Cards...?

Or 33...?


Would there need to be more...?


Please put me on the reserve list...


MM


PS - your whirling biohazardavatar makes me hear
humming noises in my head when I stare at it...

[Naomi]

No i want to do the minor arcana, see here:

(Note to later readers: this is not the most original image in this post, the new version of vbulletin doesnt allow me to see what image was here and I changed my domain from Dazimua to Ningishzidda and had to do hotlink repairs.)

i am not sure how to go about applying the hexagrams to these minors. I don't want to limit it to just the Golden Dawn applications where the suites only go on the Sephiroth and not the pathways. I am having problems figuring this one out. If you have any ideas you number pun-ter you, let me know.

I'm willing to go ternary or even pentagrammal but have not crunched any (serious) numbers.

As for the avatar - well it's a version of the twinstar it has some of the same mechanics - six sides caving inwards...however, the conventional twinstar is more powerful due to the tight nature of the lines. I would like to animate more but it's time consuming and it seems the only thing i dont have these days is, well, time...

[m1thr0s]

The minor arcana are best done as Tetragrams (not hexagrams). There are 16 binary tetragrams and 16 court cards (minor arcana). This means you won't have balanced pairs as you do in the Major Arcana, but you will have specific tetragrams assigned to every court card without shortages/remainders. You can also assign geomantic characters following the same logick (just another little ditty to toss into the mix...)

Using AC's Thoth attributions, the values are as follows...

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___ = Fire = Knights / Wands

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___ = Air = Princes / Swords

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___ = Earth = Princesses / Disks

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___ = Water = Queens / Cups

••• Characters always go in the Above, Suits in the Below •••

So, since the King of Alembics = Knight of Cups, the tetragram looks like:

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hope this makes sense...

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[Naomi]

huh.

so would ace begin at (5) Puella or (1) Via, with the royals beginning at (13) Fortuna and how would you say the royals should be ordered?

I usually go - King, Queen, Prince, Princess.

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edit

oh yes it makes sense, fascinating and most helpful, go on....

[m1thr0s]

It is also possible to do Small Cards using hexagrammal fields, only what actually happens is that you get a Trigram corresponding to each of four parts, such as 2/Wands, 2/Cups, 2 Swords, 2/Disks. This will hold true even for Aces...

I would need to show you how this works when you get there.

Great Images so far Naomi...you're stuff is always so *electric*...

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[m1thr0s]

We should clarify terms.
I am assuming: Major Arcana = Atu (22 cards) - Hexagrams
Minor Arcana = Court Cards (16 cards) - Tetragrams
Small Cards = (40 cards) - Trigrams
Total = 78 cards

I may be misusing the term Minor Arcana according to how some might use it.

In order to assign trigrams to small cards, you need to set a rule for how this is done. Hexagrammal Fields do cover the small cards but need to be broken up into quarters to examine as single cards.
The rule is not difficult but requires a little explanation.

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[Naomi]

I'm not happy with some of the images I've generated so far. I don't think I'm being a perfectionist I just don't want it to be one of those rehashed art decks - it needs to be relevant, each card. I think that when images are designed or screened for a focus then they work better as a card, rather than just picking some random illustration as they did with the Giger deck.

One thing that is giving me trouble now is the hermit card. I went back to the roots of the hermit corresponding to its bird wings and lamp but, it ended up looking stupid so I canned it, makes a better splash page for my site (www.dazimua.com) ;P

So my question is, what is the hermit card supposed to represent?

9 is the number of both Ninjutsu and the Lo Shu so...what? it's a difficult dynamic to pin down in visuals alone I am not so sure what to do about it.

m1?

edit:

I see what you are explaining here now but I am not sure how to execute until I see some demonstration. You are saying the Ace-10 would require hexagrammal fields. I think that would be super cool....together, hexagrammal pairs, tetragrams and fields make for a dynamic deck.

[m1thr0s]

You are saying the Ace-10 would require hexagrammal fields.

Almost. What I am saying is that the Hex Fields cover BOTH the 22 Paths as well as the 10 Sepheroth and the 10 sepheroth are represented by small cards in Tarot...but each small card is not really governed by a whole hex field so much as the *quarter* that most pertains to that specific card value. This means that the Hex Fields tell us what Trigrams govern each quadrant.

The *rule* tells us how to extract that information correctly, but I will need to come back with a couple of graphics to demonstrate how this works. I tried to do it without but it isn't working...

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[m1thr0s]

uh...Naomi...are you using some site called http://www.9thnode.com:2082 to post images? I am getting a password verification popup and when I cancel it drops your second picture above...

the image that would have followed this post:

No I want to do the minor arcana, see here:

is the one getting dropped...the King of Alembics...where are you posting that image from?

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