All four tarot cards were created by Christopher Taylor Graphic Design The Four Treasures Where most Pagans follow the concept of things classified as being governed by earth, air, fire or water, the Celts tend to classify things as belonging in one of the triad of land, sea and sky.  Some Pagans confuse the traditional Greek four elements with the four treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan -- The Spear of Lugh, the Sword of Nuadu Airgetlam, the Cauldron of the Dagda and the Stone of Fal.  There's a good explanation of this in Alexei Kondratiev's The Apple Branch: They are... very reminiscent of the four instruments -- wand, sword, cup and pentacle -- of the magician in the ceremonial magic tradition, which serve as the four suits of the Tarot.  These represent the Classical elements of fire, air, water and earth, and the human faculties that correspond to each. There is little evidence to suggest that the theory of the elements was a part of Celtic consciousness before the Medieval period; yet it is possible to find elemental correspondences for the cities and their Treasures: the names of Goirias and Muirias clearly associate them with fire and water respectively, and Failias ('the enclosure'), the place of the Stone, easily stands for earth, which leaves Findias to represent air (in the guise of 'sky'). That these correspondences by and large agree with the ceremonial magic ones can be both a help and hindrance to circle members who have previous experience of such traditions. On the one hand, the images of the Treasures and their basic significance will have a familiar feel about them from the start, allowing immediate identification with their functions; on the other hand, their quarter-attributions are completely different, and the symbolic system they articulate is based ultimately not on elemental theory but on the Tribe-Land ideology... Spear = West = First Function Sword = North = Second Function Cauldron = East = Third Function Stone = South = "Fourth" Function, Land Each of the Treasures must be wielded by a divine agent in order to be effective, so we will, in ritual, put them in the care of the God of the corresponding function. The Spear belongs to the Many Gifted Lord (or Lord of Illumination), the trickster-god who wins by magic and guile rather than by brute strenght, but who also, because of his superior knowledge of all things, serves as champion and arbiter of society as a whole (this, of course, is Lugus/Lugh in Celtic Tradition). The Sword belongs to the Lord of Battles, the defender of the Tribe, skilled in fighting but also in healing, the guardian of the borders of the settled world. The Cauldron (although it is, originally, an attribute of the Land-goddess) belongs to the Lord of Riches, the fat God of material comfort, who is the direct recipient of the Land's fertility, and can share it with the Tribe and translate it into wealth. And the Stone, which draws to itself and grounds the powers of the three functions, belongs, of course, to the Land-goddess herself, the Great Mother on whom all creatures depend for sustenance, the supreme reality of life on this plane.