Dear Dylan, >> The one by the woman has black marks, and the one by the man has red marks. << While it's a bit harder to see in the Merkur version, in the original art work, these are clearly censers -- pots, filled with live coals, for burning incense -- with smoke rising up from them. The one between the male and the hermaphrodite has red marks to signify an incense suitable to the Electric Fluid, and the one on the female side has dark blue (or black) marks to signify an incense for the Magnetic Fluid. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 30 Nov 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe