The Deck of Cards

My scattered pack of cards. Drawn on A4 white paper with pencil, and photographed with a Canon A460 Powershot on its sepia setting. The King, Queen and Jack are drawn with with only on head, this is because i have always wanted to design a set of playing cards with linking them to Tarot cards. There would be an obvious wright upend wrong way up.

Them having a link to their major card.

Linking each card suit to its Tarot suit.

"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation that was popularized in both the country and popular music fields, first during the late 1940s. This religious tale of a young American soldier arrested and charged with playing cards during a church service first became a hit in the U.S. in 1948 by country musician T.Texas Tyler.

"Cards" is set during WW2, where a group of US Army soldiers, on a long hike during a campaign in southern Italy, had arrived and camped near a town named Cassino. While Scripture is being read in church, one man who has only a deck of playing cards pulls them out and spreads them in front of him. He is immediately spotted by a sergeant, who believes the soldier is playing cards in church and orders him to put them away. The soldier is then arrested and taken before the provost marshal to be punished. The provost marshal demands an explanation, to which the soldier explains the significance of each card:

Ace: The one true God.

Deuce (two): The Old Testament and New Testament in the Bible.

Trey (three): The Holy Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit/Ghost.

Four: St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John, evangelists and authors of the four Gospels.

Five: The two groups of five virgins who trimmed their lamps for a wedding. Five were wise (by saving enough oil) and were admitted, while the other five were foolish (did not have enough oil) and were shut out.

Six: God created the Earth in six days.

Seven: God rested on the seventh day, now known as the Sabbath.

Eight: The eight righteous people whom God saved during the Great Flood: Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives.

Nine: Of the ten lepers whom Jesus cleansed, nine of them did not even thank him.

Ten: The Ten Commandments God handed down to Moses.

King: God, the Father.

Queen: Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Queen of Heaven.

Jack or knave: Satan or the Devil.

365 spots: The number of days in a year.

52 cards: The number of weeks in a year.

Thirteen tricks: The number of weeks in a season, or quarter of a year.

Four suits: The approximate number of weeks in a month.

Twelve face, or "Picture" cards: The number of months in a year.

He then ends his story by saying that "my pack of cards serves me as a Bible, an almanac, and a prayer book." The narrator then closes the story by stating that "this story is true," by claiming he is the soldier in question.