Ancestors

Written by PSoul•US 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-26 at 22:47

I have this project of making a Greek mythology inspired deck of card. For now, I'm trying to make a french deck (your regular 52 cards). Later I will do a 72 cards French Tarot deck (playing deck, not for fortune telling).

How would you divide the 12 Olympians into the 12 face cards?

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Toot

Written by PSoul•US 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-26 at 22:50

First of all, there are 13 Olympians depending on if you count Hestia or Dionysus:

Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, (Dionysus), Ares, Athena and Hermes

If you add Hades, that makes 14, meaning I can place Hermes and Dionysus on the joker cards.

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Descendants

Written by PSoul•US 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-26 at 22:54

so my idea is to do in order of K, Q, J

Spades, the throuple drama: Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus

Heart, the righteous: Zeus, Hera, Athena or Hestia

Clubs, the underworld: Hades, Persephone, Demeter

Diamonds, nature: Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon

What do y'all think?

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Written by PSoul•US 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-26 at 22:56

I could flip Aphrodite and Athena to make spades about war/military and heart about love

Technically, Demeter is nature related so she could go in diamonds as well.

Zeus, Hera and Demeter usually had temples dedicated to them as a trinity. They could be their own suite as well.

Aphrodite needs to be the queen of hearts.

Too many options... I'm lost.

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Written by sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) on 2025-01-26 at 23:19

@psoul without having looked at yours, I did the following:

The home: Zeus, Hera, Hestia

Nature: Poseidon, Demeter, Artemis

Love and beauty: Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes

War and civilization: Ares, Athena, Hephasteus

Not sure what the connotations would be for the classic deck of cards, but for tarot I would do pentacles, wands, cups, swords

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