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Allegorical maps of love, courtship, and matrimony (publicdomainreview.org)
31 points by prismatic on Aug 4, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> From there a proliferation of variations on the format ensued, each home to a host of novel toponyms, including such gems as Divorce Island, Country of Single Men, Land of Spinsters, Mountains of Delay (Inhabited by Lawyers), Squabble Marsh, and Port Hymen (there's also a Temple of Hymen).

Very amusing.


Tiny point: "hymen" just meant marriage, allegorically because Hymen was the Roman god of marriage.


Here’s an old slatestarcodex post with a collection of more “sentimental maps”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartograph...




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