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      H    e     s 

     t      i    a 

 H e s  t   i     a 

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The Gods of Mount Olympus

These cards are Featuring Zeus as a

supreme god of the Olympians on Mount

Olympus in Greece along with his wife

Hera, Supreme queen and goddess. Hisfather Cronus and mother Rhea are along

with his brothers, the other kings with

their wives as their queens. His sisters as

 Jacks along with Athena, his favourite

daughter and his beloved Semele, mother

of the god Dionysus as a Joker along with

the god Hermes.

KCronus

    K    C   r   o   n   u  s

Cronus    C   r   o   n   u  sCronus

Cronus

     C   r    o    n    u   s Cronus

QRhea

     Q    R   h   e   a

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KZeus

    K    Z   e   u  s

Zeus    Z   e   u  sZeus

Zeus

     Z    e    u   s Zeus

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AthenaAthena

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     (            (       

 J

 J

Q

Q

Hera

    H   e   r   a

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PoseidonK

   P   o  s   e i   d   o   n    K

   o  s   e i   d   o   n

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Semele

   S   e    m   e l   e

 J

 J

Amphitrite

    A    m   p   h i  t   r i  t   e

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     Q

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Hades

    H   a   d   e  s

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    K

      H    a    d    e   s

Hades

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   5

5

DemeterDemeter

 J

 J

Persefone

   P   e   r  s   e  f   o   n   e

Q

     Q

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The Gods of Mount Olympus

These cards are created using 2 kinds of typeface,the main one is Gill Sans MT,whichis used to put names and descriptions,and the second one is Bodoni MT for graphics,mainly because it is serif and it makes easier to create organic shapes for the symbols

I used.

The central theme is Greek Mythology,using as a base the Greek god of the sky andthunder and the ruler of the Olympians Zeus as a main god and King for the

porpoises of these cards,Hera is his sister and his wife,She is the Queen of the Gods,Goddess of Marriage,Women,Childbirth,and Family.

 Zeus’s brothers and their wives are the rest of the kings and queens, including

Cronus who was Zeus’s father and Rhea, his mother.

Cronus was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans.He was sonof Uranus,the ruler of the universe and Gaia, the Mother of the Earth.Rhea is

Cronus’s wife and Zeus’s Mother,She is the mother of the Olympian gods,her namemeans flow and ease and some mythology experts suggest that she represented theeternal flow of time.

Poseidon,Zeus’s brother,is the god of the sea, his domain is the ocean and all thewaters.His wife Amphitrite is the goddess of the sea and a Queen for these cards.

Hades was the King of the Underworld,the god of death and the dead.His wifePersephone is the goddess of the vegetation and queen of the underworld.She at the

same time is the daughter of Zeus and his sister:Demeter,who is the Goddess of theharvest,presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Hades is Persephone’s

uncle who kidnapped her to the underworld.When Demeter finds out, she begged

her brother Hades to allow Persephone to come back to the livings,denoting that shewas not supposed to live in the underworld.Hades finally allowed Persephone to live

on earth for six months each year,while the rest of the time she would be on his sidein the Underworld.The myth of Hades and Persephone is associated with the coming

of spring and winter:When Persephone comes to the Earth, its springtime.When shedescends to Hades,it is winter.

For the Jacks,I decided that they can be the Virgin sister of Zeus:Hestia the goddess

of familial hearth,home and family and fire, The second Jack would be the 2nd sisterof Zeus and Persephone’s mother: Demeter;Athena, a virgin goddess, favouritedaughter of Zeus that is believed she came out from Zeus’s forehead,she is the

goddess of wisdom,courage,civilization,law and justice,strategic war,mathematics,strength,strategy,the arts,crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion,mythology and

philosophy;and finally Semele would be the last one,she is a mortal but Zeus fell inlove with her a she conceived Dionysus,the god of the grape harvest,winemaking and

wine,of ritual madness,fertility,theatre and religious ecstasy. He would be the first Joker for our set of cards.

The second Joker would be Hermes;he is the god of transitions and boundaries.Heis quick and cunning, and moves freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine,

as emissary and messenger of the gods.

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    A

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Hermes    H   e   r    m   e  s

 JOKER

 J     O    K   E    R

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  1   0

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Dionysus

    D i   o   n   y  s   u  s

 JOKER

 J     O    K   E    R