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Illumination | Haiku

The Escape

The heroine begins her life alone

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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

Matthew Arnold

Hierophant helps

Empress frees me to wander

Who will lift this curse

The emperor lay dead at her feet. The magician had hurled his curse at her and vanished. What could she do?

The temple guards seized the high priestess and took her to the empress. Standing by the side of the empress was the hierophant. Both were glad to see the emperor dead, for together they would rule in his place.

The hierophant, who understood the curse placed on her, helped the high priestess to escape. He told her, after centuries of waiting and wondering, there would be a convergence of time and place that would make it possible to lift the curse.

But he did not tell her how that could happen.

She fled, alone, to begin long years of wandering.

Prologue

This is the story of an impoverished fortune-teller who has lived for many centuries, barely surviving in modern times. She has sensed a coming storm and has gathered her magical powers to stand against it.

Fortune Teller

The gathering storm

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The Beginning

This was her beginning. She was a young girl in love. Then that life, with its hopes and dreams, was lost. The soldiers took her to the temple to become the high priestess.

The Heroine

High priestess of illusion and mystery

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The Attack

The magician aided the emperor in his attempt to possess her. Unleashing her power, she slaughtered the emperor. But she was no match for the magician. He cursed her to his fate: eternal, unchanging life.

The Villains

The emperor and the magician attack the high priestess

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The Hierophant is the fifth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks…..the Hierophant is represented with his right hand raised in blessing or benediction, with two fingers pointing skyward and two pointing down, thus forming a bridge between Heaven and Earth. In his left hand he held a triple cross….. In most iconographic depictions, the Hierophant is seen seated on a throne between two pillars symbolizing Law and Liberty or obedience and disobedience, according to different interpretations. He wears a triple crown, and the keys to Heaven are at his feet……Wikipedia

The Empress is the third trump or Major Arcana card in traditional Tarot decks. The Empress sits on a throne wearing a crown with twelve stars, holding a scepter in one hand. The scepter is representative of her power over life, her crown has twelve stars representing her dominance over the year, and her throne is in the midst of a field of grain, representative of her dominion over growing things……Wikipedia