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Olympic Tarot (2) - a first story

Gaia (= Earth) married Uranos (= Heaven). Their first kids were the 3 Cyclopes (with one eye each) and 3 other strange figures with "100 arms" (Hecatonchiren). All this looked a little strange.
Then it seems, that they got 6 daughters first (Rhea was the oldest) and then 6 sons (Kronos was the youngest). These were called the Titans. As there were not many persons in the world, who could marry, the Gaia-Uranos-daughters married usually Gaia-Uranos-sons.With that Gaia and Uranos had 18 children and the universe thought, that this is enough. Gaia, not happy with her husband, caused Kronos, her youngest son, to cut the genital of Uranos. Stop with the production, system is closed now - this is the message.Well, a closed system with 18 elements - somehow a Tarot. Paint the figures on a card-deck and you've a Tarot. But they are figures in a head of a poet some thousands of years ago.
22 elements: A Tarot. The "Standard Tarot" - so as we do know it, with 22 elements - has been merged once by Eliphas Levi with the system of Sepher Yezirah. Sepher Yetzirah knew 3 mothers (elements), 7 doubled (planets) and 12 simple (zodiac) and here you have it: