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The Symbolism of Death in the Tarot
Death (XIII) is the 13th trump or Major Arcana card. Early Tarot cards all depicted actual Death represented using a skeleton holding a scythe. But later cards have introduced more subtle interpretations of death, often connected with the cycles of life, the growing interest in reincarnation and the concept of "mystic death". Death means death for all those who are not on the spiritual path, and quite a few on the path who simply did not get to the stage of "mystical death". To deny this would be to deny reality. So this video first looks at "ordinary death" to remind us that we may have an immortal soul, and we may reincarnate, but first we have to die. And then we will take a look at "mystic death", what it is, and how this is represented in the Tarot.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
We have used Wikipedia’s figures and examples, from their pages on disease, famine, and war. Please regard the figures as illustrative, as it is clear that many countries did not and still do not keep accurate statistics.
African countries, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan in particular are almost devoid of accurate information. The WHO appears to use estimates, not actual figures, for these countries. In contrast China has kept accurate records for several thousand years
PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOS
An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow – Adolph Northen
Jan Boeckhorst - Prince Henry (1640–1660), Duke of Gloucester
Mark Knobil - Cholera hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, showing typical "cholera beds"
Paul Nash – The Menin Road [Imperial War Museum]
Frederic Remington- An Indian warrior
The Pacification [sic] of Algeria – Horace Vernet
Citizens of Tournai bury plague victims. Miniature from The Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis (1272–1352). Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Map - World distribution of plague 1998
Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Deaths due to HIV/AIDS per million people in 2012 – the darker the colour the more deaths
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. In Famine in the Soviet Ukraine, 1932–1933: a memorial exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1986.
Ghurid Empire according to Schwartzberg Atlas, p.147
Flood Dhaka -Rezowan
Monsoon clouds in Mahya Pradesh- Rajarshi Mitra
Regaining the provincial city Anqing - Wu Youru
Battle at the Wei River (Weihe)
Du Halde – Description de la Chine – Vol 2 feuille 113
Drawing of Mongols inside Suzdal under Batu Khan (with sword).
Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado - 1906 portrait of Alvarado by Tomás Povedano
Sambhaji Maharaj – Apricus Apricus
John George Bartholomew - The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford University Press, 1909.
Shot in the dark Photography – Torbay [Darren Murray]
TAROT DECKS
Death - Lightseers tarot deck
La Mort – Le grand Etteilla tarot deck A 1850
Death – Pierpont Morgan Bergamo tarot deck
Thoth [Aleister Crowlet] tarot – Death
Rider-Waite tarot – Death
Mucha tarot – Death
13 La Mort, Oswald Wirth Tarot Deck 1889
Additional useful links
Smallpox deaths and royalty - https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/royal-deaths-from-smallpox/
The Blood telegram - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Blood#The_Blood_telegram
VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE
Free Stock Video - Tarot Cards Being Flipped Over
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Fs-XxsCNzSY
From the bowels of hell, comes L.W. (real footage)
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=P4oRvYaj8B4
Funeral stock footage | Royalty free video | NO COPYRIGHT | cinematic film | grave, death
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nOd2c-CEQTo
25 Scary NATURAL DISASTERS Caught On Camera
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IJ9IgxANWZM
Doctor Stock Footage - Royalty Free Video, NO COPYRIGHT, 4K, hospital, medicine, medical, healing
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lxgGX_91T70
Pandemic Stock Footage - Pandemic Free Stock Videos - Pandemic No Copyright Videos
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SszFudoPbcU
Rare footage of the HOLODOMOR. The man-made famine/genocide in Ukraine 1932 -1933.
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LAzc4lo5trk
Army stock footage. Military war stock video . no copyright free
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=iwKXhRv2rlk
Grim Reaper Green Screen 4K - Effects by Green Screen Animation:
https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCk7DcAEWN8dna2A_KYSSslQ
Lightning From Hell Scene Royalty Free Video Effect Footage AA VFX
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SaCuU71r_Y4
MUSIC
00:00 Cattle - Telecasted
02:24 Black Mass - Brian Bolger
05:11 Tempting Fate by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://audionautix.com/
08:27 Devil's Organ - Jimena Contreras
11:25 Mayan Ritual - Jimena Contreras
14:05 Dreamlike by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100410
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
15:09 Cattle - Telecasted
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