Tarot letters have a strong deep connection with some deities, but, to be honest, only some are really connected in a natural and significant way to specific deities. If you want to know what deities are associated with the Tarot letters, this is the right article for you.

5 powerful deities associated with the Tarot letters

Bread – the devil

The association between the God of vegetation, animals and incontaminated nature and the devil of the tradition of Tarot finds its origin in the medieval Christian interpretation of the figure of Panun Pastoril and rural God of a world without laws, of pure enjoyment and wild nature.

PAN is presented as a kind of anthropomorphism of nature, but it is also described as «dirty bright hair», as a sign of uninhibited and independent sexuality of any morals, reminiscence of archaic times, in which the human being lived immersed in this kind of «pician promiscuity.»

All these functional characteristics led to identify bread with the devil because it became the lord of the underworld and eternal tempting of the human race. Bread not only resembles the devil, but it presents the same exhausting and obsessive, wild and promiscuous energy of the devil. That is why they are definitely connected and that is why bread is the deity associated with the devil’s tarot.

Apollo – The Sun

In the God of the Sun, Apollo brought spring to earth, the flowers flourish, then, with the arrival of summer, with his powerful wilting rays and killed what he had created in spring. It was the God who had to announce to men the will of Zeus. It was the god of oracles.

As God of Health, I also had the power to send evil to those who wanted to punish. All sudden deaths were due to their lethal arrows; He is shooting with his silver arc as Apollo, irritated by the unfair outrage made to his priest Crises, extended the plague in the Greek camp, as described in the Iliad.

Apollo is the God of the Sun and of Light, of Health and, above all, of song, music and poetry. It is the perfect representation of the Tarot of the Sun letter for its strong, brilliant and positive energy and for everything it can contribute.

Artemisa – The Moon

Artemis is the way that a goddess of prehellenic origin in the Greek civilization linked to the cult of forests, wild animals, the moon and, more general, of the regenerating power of nature. It is one of the virgin goddesses, independent and skilled archera. With her golden arc and arrows, tailored to her by Ephesus and the Cyclops, Artemisa, to which the Romans called Diana, never fails.

She is a competitive and vindictive goddess who rushes towards her target without being distracted by anything. Artemisa always gets what he wants and punishes without mercy to anyone who disrespects her or any of her nymph sisters. Artemis protects women (there are many occasions in which violations against one of their nymphs or women who have invoked their help), the parturients, the puppies, the wild animals and the forests.

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In more general terms, it can be said that Artemis protects incontaminated nature, the regenerating power of nature in its purest and most primary form. She is the goddess of what does not belong to man, of what man cannot and should not control or violate, of the most mysterious, of what man cannot and should not control or violate. Part of Gaiasu Green Heart. She is the goddess of life that is regenerated, and as such she is a young, impetuous, indomitable, full force.

The moon is the hidden part of the earth, the mysterious side of life, as well as female energy. The moon is strongly related to Artmis, sister of Apollo and homologous of the Sun. This makes it in perfect tune with the moon.

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List of the 5 divinities associated with the moon [con relatos].

Zeus – The Emperor

There are many versions of Zeusinfancia and Growth. Some claim that he was educated by his grandmother Gea. Others say it was raised by a goat. And others say that he would have raised a nymph.

The only common truth is that he was the only one of the children of Cronos who managed to save himself. Once grown up, he made his father crone vomit to all his brothers through a cunning trick. Zeus thus began a war against his father and the other Titans (Titanomaquia). Beside him, he had the help of Cyclops, released from Tartar. Together they managed to defeat Kronos.

After the battle, Zeus decided to share the throne with his brothers, raffling different parts of the world. Poseidon touched the water kingdom. Hades controlled the kingdom of the dead. Zeus became sovereign of the kingdom of heaven and air.

Instead, the earth was divided into equal parts. From that moment on, Zeus began to reign on Mount Olympus, considered sacred by the Greeks. All gods lived in the mountain. The king of the gods tried to reorder and rebuild everything his father had destroyed. His leadership, his power and authority make Zeus the emperor of the whole of the major arcana.

Demeter – The Empress

Demeter was the daughter of Cronos y Rea, sister of Zeus. Most likely, the name means «Mother Earth»: in fact, Demeter is the mother goddess par excellence, the goddess of the producing earth, who presides over agriculture, ensures the serene work of men, helps them and facilitates it with their teachings.

Divinity characteristically Greek, is distinguished from other «mothers goddesses», such as area and cyber, because while they express the wild trigger of the mysterious forces of nature without terms or rules, Demetra represents the orderly and regular generation of the earth, subject to certain laws and the work of man. This makes her the perfect Empress, the mother of all of us, the powerful Empress of the Tarot deck.