Fabric in the Presence of series
The Presence of series explores the characters and features and symbols and the way things cascade through the Mystereum deck, sometimes in multiple places, to echo-resonate-locate further layers of visual story and meaning in the cards for you. The Presence of series is basically my Cliff’s Notes as deck creator to you.
The Form-Giver for Fabric Symbol/Glyph in Mystereum
In a field of barley the ancient Egyptians felt living sustenance, which feeds into the graphic design of their hieroglyph for “fabric”. The Egyptian “fabric” hieroglyph is 4 pairs of barley stalks leaning together in pairs, 4 pairs of barley stalks leaning together all on a common ground. This provides the lineage reference for the 4-pillared golden symbol that I designed to represent “Fabric” in The Land of Mystereum. Fabric can be textile, cloth material, and as well it can indicate how things come together in relationship like in a community, And, as well there is a community in Self. Interestingly enough, perceiving this inner community as thoughts and ideas and you are conscious and potentially creative. If you perceive this inner community as an entity or entities distinct from yourself living within you, regardless of it being benevolent or malevolent, rather than being consscious you just might be bicameral, and you might have schizophrenia as your norm. Psychologist Julian Jaynes makes a good point for this in his book The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
It is this symbol of 4 pairs of barley stalks below, this hieroglyph structure, that caught my eye as indicating the fabric of community. Bottom middle diagram:
Fabric in and throughout Mystereum
The presence of the symbol for Fabric in the Land of Mystereum induces a different kind of depth than the characters that cameo in the coordination and living order that pulses as the The Land of Mystereum‘s heartbeat. Through the Presence of series you can explore and further discover how Major Arcana characters and symbols and features live in the Land of Mystereum as they make cameos and guest appearances throughout the deck. They contribute their presence to the living lineage present in the worlds of many Minor Arcana cards.
QuickNote to Ya
As we come to a close on this segment of the Presence of series, before I outline the cameo appearances of Fabric, here’s what this series is form-giving… I am using these Presence of blog articles to begin to build a Land of Mystereum Encyclopedia, or Mcyclopedia as I think I’m going to call it — thank you to the rockin’ Karen Sealey for penning the title. Sounds like “encylcopedia,” ” M ” is the Land of Mystereum’s nickname with those who avidly reap its benefits, and so Mcyclopedia it is. Mcyclopedia. [M-psy-klo-p-d-(schaw)].
Mystereum isn’t a derivative deck, so, the Mcyclopedia will be like a roadmap, just a lot more fun, and you don’t have to figure out how to fold it back up to put it away. Let me rephrase that, M isn’t derivative of the RWS / PCS deck or Thoth or Marseilles. It has been honored by some to express an amped Marseilles feel from its French d’affiche deco-no-shade-and-shadow bold and masculine poster art from the 30’s feel that is dance-contrasted with the welcoming portal of its feminine card back.
The 2 Versions of Fabric
There are two versions of the symbol for Fabric in The Land of Mystereum. The Fabric of All and The Fabric of One.
Before we get into them both, allow me to show you how they came to be. It’s a short and simple story. The Egyptian symbol for Fabric/fabric is composed of 4 pairs of barley stalk propped up, each pair leans on heir paired counterpart, and all together create 4 barley pillars. All four barley pillars are set on a common base. I saw the concept of weaving expressed in that relative to textiles, and as well I saw this with the common base as community. So, Fabric of All is a symbol representative of how things come together on a common base, and how people and ideas come together on the common base of how they are in community. Interestingly enough, I found the Four Pillars of Heaven hieroglyph below 3 years after Mystereum was published by Schiffer Publishing in 2010. Very interesting to me that it is almost a direct Rx *reversal) of the symbol I created. Divination is cool like that. As T.S. Elliot expressed, “There is nothing new, yet everything must be original.”
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Four Pillars of Heaven | four props, the Four Pillars of Heaven; also as, s(kh)nut, four pillars of the sky; (sa)(kh)niu, additionally, 4 legs of a chair; s(kh)nut, 4 legs of a vessel & s(kh)nut IV, the 4 Pillars that Support the Sky |
[ “Four Pillars of Heaven” hieroglyph source that is interestingly enough more similar to my glyph than the original barley stalks that inspired it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs_by_alphabetization ]
Fabric of One
The Fabric of One is the Fabric of All symbol where the common base is rolled into a circle, and thus makes a Fabric of Identity, or as I began to refer to it, a Fabric of One. The Fabric of One glyph is the golden, round symbol with a pillar to each of the 4 directions.
Fabric of One
Fabric of All
The Fabric of All glyph is the golden, horizontal 4-pillared symbol on the left in the featured image. The featured images of both of these are out-take vignettes from The Devil card.
Fabric of All
Fabric Appearances
Fabric of All Cameos
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- first-sparks, intense focus, inception, creation
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- vitality, reciprocation, powerful witness, mindbodybeautiful exchange, relating intensities
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- self, return, bright success, dancing with your Shadow
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- solid and crucial connections, dna of a situation, full interplay of details
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- Allow the ground you walk on to be as inspirational as the stars in your sky
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- incorporating emotions discovered on the move
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- Connected thoughts, upcoming decisoins
Fabric of One Cameos
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- Notice the eclipse WITHIN the sun, and the magically watching eye-wings as vision to take you new places… focus so intense that it dilates time to open
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- I give you a place of your own to clearly float fully supported in your mind activating your crown chakra. Chrysalis, fully afloat in supportive clarity.
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- Comfortabilty with your earthly desires. Mind that the omissions of inhibitions enslave as easily as the tantrums of excess.
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- who you were when you were born, Self, return, identity, bright success in context
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- Magician in his thoughts or sky top left along with The Hierophant and Chariot, magical spirit solidly on the move, grounded enthusiasm
Thanks for visiting
What strikes you about the resonance of Fabric in your Land of Mystereum?
What is so big and / or SO there in your life that you are missing it? How does Fabric subtly support you in this way?
Also, check out Presence Of articles to discover more about the coordinated dynamism present to support and further inform coordination in your journey throughout The Land of Mystereum and throughout your life
- The Presence Of The Priestess to see her guest starring cameos and further inform cards with her presence in The Land of Mystereum.
- The Presence Of The Fool to see The Fool guest starring in cameos that further inform The Land of Mystereum.
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Karen Sealey
August 23, 2012 at 9:09 am
Thanks Jordan! It was on my ever expending list of things to do…sit down and find all the cards with this symbol… so you have done my homework for me 😉 Though Please explain MVP … I am worried about hanged man and the health risks of being upside down in a tree with a Mitral Valve Prolapse !!! 😉 x
mystereum
August 23, 2012 at 1:06 pm
LOL. MVP was intended to mean a Most Valuable Player. 🙂
Karen Sealey
August 23, 2012 at 1:14 pm
xD I know !!! My imp is on the loose and I thought you would find that LOL 😉 x
mystereum
August 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm
🙂