Jason nods at Glitch's limited-but-correct assessment of the cards in question, a hint of a cynical smile answering his words.
"Mathematically unlikely, yes-- however, all day long I have been drawing an 'unlikely' proportion of cards from the major arcana. Perhaps it is something in the water."
He withdraws his hands from the cards, laces them on the tabletop and studies the tableaux for a few seconds in silence.
"In the position of the past, the Hanged Man. A card symbolizing sacrifice, and surrender... It has ties to a myth of my world; a god who bound himself to hang from a tree for nine days in order that he might receive knowledge of sacred mysteries.
"Some see other stories suggested by the Hanged Man as well; the Christ-myth, Osiris or Mithras... but always a theme of sacrifice of the self, destruction of the self, in order to obtain some form of salvation or victory."
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"Mathematically unlikely, yes-- however, all day long I have been drawing an 'unlikely' proportion of cards from the major arcana. Perhaps it is something in the water."
He withdraws his hands from the cards, laces them on the tabletop and studies the tableaux for a few seconds in silence.
"In the position of the past, the Hanged Man. A card symbolizing sacrifice, and surrender... It has ties to a myth of my world; a god who bound himself to hang from a tree for nine days in order that he might receive knowledge of sacred mysteries.
"Some see other stories suggested by the Hanged Man as well; the Christ-myth, Osiris or Mithras... but always a theme of sacrifice of the self, destruction of the self, in order to obtain some form of salvation or victory."