ALTARS OF THE DEITIES

In the Lycian Tradition we make use of an altar setup that is reflective of our "Wheel of the Year." This "altar" is the one which we use for Sabbats and Esbats and has the four tools of the Craft in the quadrants as shown in the first row of the following table; that is the row above the Sun card.

However, when we are doing a particular working, that calls for invoking a particular deity, we use various "altars" each assigned to an individual God or Goddess according to a systematic pattern derived from the relationship of the elements, one to the other and illustrated by the binary numbers. Those altars are listed in the following table and our deities we have equated to the Major Arcana cards of the Tarot deck as follows:

Card Name	Fire	Water	Air	Earth	South	North	West	East
Active	1	1	1	1	wand	cup	dagger	pantacle
Sun	1	1	0	0	wand	cup	pantacle	dagger
Devil	1	N	0	N	wand	dagger	pantacle	cup
Strength	1	N	N	1	wand	dagger	cup	pantacle
Emperor	1	N	N	0	wand	pantacle	cup	dagger
Tower	1	N	1	N	wand	pantacle	dagger	cup
Lovers	0	N	0	N	cup	dagger	pantacle	wand
Empress	0	N	N	1	cup	dagger	wand	pantacle
Temperance	0	N	N	0	cup	pantacle	wand	dagger
Hanged	0	N	1	N	cup	pantacle	dagger	wand
Moon	0	0	1	1	cup	wand	dagger	pantacle
Passive	0	0	0	0	cup	wand	pantacle	dagger
Mage	N	N	N	N	dagger	pantacle	wand	cup
Star	N	N	N	N	dagger	pantacle	cup	wand
Chariot	N	0	N	1	dagger	wand	cup	pantacle
Justice	N	0	0	N	dagger	wand	pantacle	cup
Priestess	N	1	0	N	dagger	cup	pantacle	wand
Death	N	1	N	1	dagger	cup	wand	pantacle
Wheel	N	0	N	0	pantacle	wand	cup	dagger
Priest	N	0	1	N	pantacle	wand	dagger	cup
Judgment	N	1	1	N	pantacle	cup	dagger	wand
Hermit	N	1	N	0	pantacle	cup	wand	dagger
World	N	N	N	N	pantacle	dagger	wand	cup
Fool	N	N	N	N	pantacle	dagger	cup	wand

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