"There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; and that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom I will say on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe. He who can understand that the story of his higher nature is imbedded in this symbolism will receive intimations concerning a great awakening that is possible, and will know that after the sacred Mystery of Death there is a glorious Mystery of Resurrection. "Odin hung upside for nine days to attain wisdom and thereby retrieved The Runes from the Well of Wyrd, The moment he glimpsed the runes, he died, but the knowledge of them was so powerful that he immediately returned to life. "
Text by A. E. Waite