Dodal, linked reproduction
Valet d Dinies
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗A held disk and the ground below
Look at the relation between a standing figure, a round object and the earth.
Start with the pictures
Page of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 261
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Valet d Dinies
A standing figure holds one coin up beside the face. A second coin lies near the feet, separate from the raised one.
Smith
Page of Pentacles
A standing figure raises a pentacle and looks intently at it, with flowers, trees and distant hills around.
Harris
Princess of Disks · Princess
A standing figure in a grove holds a patterned disk beside the body. A long staff descends toward pale, root-like forms in the ground.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite reads application, scholarship and reflection, with messages as another possibility. The figure’s absorption in the emblem gives the account a different pace from the active Swords page.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes a figure among sacred trees, a sceptre descending into the earth and a disk with a central spiral emblem. The scene joins gestation with the possibility of transformation.
What changes when you follow the connection between the held object and the ground?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.