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>Do these accounts throw any light on the imagery of trump VIII Nerone (fig.50), which can be read as a depiction of child immolation? As we noted, Nerone may well refer to Gaius Claudius Nero, a commander in the Second Punic War - a fact that retains the consistency of the Punic Wars' theme connecting the deck's other identifiable historical figures; but we also need to recognise that the card's name and imagery have been rendered deliberately ambiguous, or rather, polysemous. For when we read it as referring to the emperor, it can just as easily be interpreted as playing upon the well known themes of Nero's persecution of Christians and supposed responsibility for the great fire that burned down a large portion of Rome in 64 CE

>Robert Graves suggested three poetic strategies - encoded as references to three animals - conventionally employed to hide occult knowledge: the dog, the roebuck and the lapwing. Whilst the dog guards the secret, the roebuck hides it and the lapwing disguises it, often in plain sight. We would do well to bear these strategies in mind as we consider the deck's many puzzles. We should be especially wary when we sense allusions to themes that, by their very nature, would be considered taboo under any conceivable ethical code. What we actually see represented on the card is a small camp fire, rather than a city burning down, and a figure whose actions could be interpreted as conducting a ritual. An alternative reading of the card is that it alludes to Nero's initiation into Mithraism in connection with which Pliny suggests that Nero practiced human sacrifice,

>"As to sacrificing human beings, there was nothing in the world that gave him greater pleasure."

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