ATDTDA (18): 493-494 "captivated by eyes"

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         David Morris:
          I say this Cyprian-Venus connection is not accidental, 
          especially since Pynchon references Venus in both V & GR.

          Michael J. Hußmann:
          Although Yashmeen in her capacity as having been spied 
          upon while bathing would be Artemis/Diana, even when 
          N&N lived to tell the tale, contrary to Actaeon who was turned 
          into a stag and killed by his own hounds. But everything 
          considered, Aphrodite/Venus probably fits best.

But don't forget [as well]:

          "Allow us," said Nigel, "to introduce Miss—Or actually, as she's a 
          seventeenth-degree Adept, one ought properly to say 'Tzaddik', 
          except that obviously—"

          "Well blimey, it's really only old Yashmeen, isn't it," added Neville. 
          221

          "Tzaddik" - (pl. "Tzadikkim"); a righteous man (for the female 
          equivalent, see "Tzidkanit") - based on the Hebrew word 
          "Tzedek," or Justice. The Jewish hero is not the swashbuckling 
          warrior, but rather the "Tzaddik," the "mighty warrior" who 
          conquers his "evil inclinations," towards pride, power and 
          oppression, and practices righteousness and humility, and who 
          is, like G-d, always on "the side of the oppressed." 
          ("Kohelet," or Ecclesiastes 3:15) Examples were the three 
          "Avot," the forefathers of the Jewish People, Avraham, 
          Yitzchak and Yaakov, who exemplified what a person can be.

http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/tw.htm

          Aleister Crowley and the Star

          The story goes that Crowley was in contact with an 
          extra-dimensional entity (Aiwaz), who told him, in the 
          course of things, "All these old letters of my Book are 
          aright; but tzaddi is not the Star." Crowley took this to 
          mean that the Star trump is not in its correct place, 
          and thus does not correspond to the Hebrew letter. . . .

          Review of Magick : Liber Aba : Book 4 

          This book is certainly a classic of sorts; Crowley has 
          spawned a stagnant pond full of imitators, but none 
          will ever match his wit, intelligence, originality and 
          genius for prose writing. By all means, if you're someone 
          who needs a self-image as a person who is seeking 
          enlightenment of some kind but wants to look cool and 
          dangerous doing it, buy this inspired drivel and convince 
          yourself it works, assuming you're one of the few actually 
          dull enough to read it all. . . .

          Reviewer: A reader from TN USA

http://www.psyche.com/psyche/tarot/RevivedTarot/crowley.html

The Atbash Cipher: Re-ordering the Major Arcana

          Encoded within the Atbash cipher is an elegant solution 
          to the transpositions of Major cards carried out by both 
          the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley. It explains why 
          the Golden Dawn transposition of Justice and Strength 
          is accepted almost without comment, and why there is 
          never-ending confusion as to the transposition of the 
          Star and Emperor cards in the Book of Thoth without 
          entering into complex arguments involving Moebius 
          strips and astrology. The new ordering of the Atbash 
          cipher based upon the Golden Dawn and Book of Thoth 
          an be used as the basis of further research into Gematria.

http://supertarot.co.uk/magic/atbash.htm

There is a great deal of gender mixing in the whole Cyprian/Yashmeen
match-up. Gotta wonder about Tommy boy there. . .