Tarot Symbolism

With sweetness and much delight, from her sweet bosom the papesse drew forth her paps, so soft and beautiful, and placed it in his mouth. Her milk is truly virginal, the nectar of spiritual life, through which death meets its defeat. "Dear sweet son", she said, "regard the breast, with which I nursed you well." Hers is the milk of paradise, that sustains the Christian soul, and flows like streams into the mouths of sufferers in purgatory.

Let us embark on a journey of the heart, as pilgrims of love along the milky way...

As mothers milk is life to the new born infant so water, wine...the blood of christ, is as the milk of spiritual eternal life of the second born in Christian mystical theology... and Jesus our God becomes Mother, as St. Bernard wrote:

"Suck not the wounds, but rather the breasts of the crucified. He shall be as a mother to you, and you as a son to him....So you, Lord God, are the great mother."

Pope is papa, father, the feminine suffix gives us papesse, female or feminine father...from whose 'pappe' (paps) is sucked the wine, blood, milk of spiritual life. Christ and Mary, father, mother, bride and bridegroom are all conflated in a complex of antithetical associations the paradoxical union of which can only be found in the eternal and infinite...

"Christ, my mother, you gather your chickens under your wings; this dead chicken of yours puts himself under your wings."

As Mary is the breast or pappe on which Christ sucked human life so the church is the pappe from which the soul sucks upon eternal life...

(Now really..was medieval somatic symbolism ever so... graphic?)

Imagery and language is inverted to represent the union of the paradox or end of duality and return to the one in the eternal and infinite.

...but I'm a beer drinker meself

...i Venga, Kwaw, toma una cervezita y relajate, creo que tu tienes sed despues de todos tus palabras sobre el Salvator y de Virgen!

Mea Culpa!

La sed para el infinito es sed para la leche del padre, la gran madre. Mi sed, nunca satisfecha e infinita, bebidas de la pezón eterno.

"English is the language ofbusiness, French, the language of diplomacy. German is the language of soldiers, and Italian the language of love...

...but Spanish is the language to speak of God."

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