Waite–Smith, Trump 5
The Hierophant
What you can see
A crowned figure raises one hand between two pillars, with a triple-cross staff in the other. Two attendants kneel below, near crossed keys.
What Waite says
Waite associates the figure with institutional religion and its outward teaching. He distinguishes this office from the withdrawn power of the High Priestess and from inspiration itself.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 88–91 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.