Kalevala Tarot - World
By Kalervo Aaltonen & Taina Pailos
US Games Systems

The World was right on top of this deck as well. Didn't have to go looking for it. Card 21 shows a woman draped in reddish translucent scarves, holding a hammer in her right hand some sort of wooden crescent in her left. She stands on one sphere and another is over her head. A snake encircles her, tail in its mouth, inscribed with runes. Four trees are in the corners of the cards, with an element as the background of the corner.

LWB:
Luonnotar: Enjoy the work of your own hands.
Reversed: Don't leave anything half-done.

There is joy in this card. She dances for herself alone. She holds the hammer of the Magician, but she does not need to wield it in force - she can Sing the sword into being. She has the power in her own hands to nurture it into what she wants it to be. Luonnotar is the creatrix of our world. She lay in a river, endless, nothing had ever happened by which to mark time. One day a duck lay on her knee, and laid an egg, then flew away. Luonnotar tried very hard to hold still, to hatch the egg, but it rolled off her knee and into the depths. She dove down, not realizing until now that there was a "down". She retrieved the pieces of the egg, made the two shell halves into the world, the yolk in the sky as sun, the white in the sky as moon, and brought up mud from the bottom to make the land for us.

A short version of a creation myth, since she's the name on the card.

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