The Hanging Man Tarot
or La Pendu in the Tarot de Marseilles, representing sacrifice and rebirth. The imagery invokes the myth of Adonis, Christ, Osiris, Odin and many more— a dying God who ails, dies, and transforms. In Ritual to Romance by Jesse Weston suggests that this archetype represents the cyclicality of the harvest and man’s (once strong) connection to the land.