Tarot card
The Hierophant
The Hierophant keeps and transmits a received teaching. He speaks of initiation, shared doctrine and guidance within a tradition, along with the authority—and the limits—of those who guard its forms.
3 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · The Hierophant in full
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The oldest attribution here is Tarot trump of Path 16 · Vav, first attested 1888 CE.
Tarot trump of
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Path 16 · Vav
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
Book T establishes this Tarot-to-letter attribution. The path number and endpoints belong to this tradition's canonical Kircher arrangement.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 16
Astrological attribution
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Taurus
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
Book T's attribution carried by the Hebrew letter and therefore by this path.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, astrological and Tarot columns, row 16
Hebrew-letter attribution
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Vav
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
A Golden Dawn correspondence, not a claim about the historical origin of the card or a universal Jewish letter-to-card system.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 16