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Allegorical maps of love, courtship, and matrimony
- texaslonghorn5 4y ago> 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.
- dash2 4y agoTiny point: "hymen" just meant marriage, allegorically because Hymen was the Roman god of marriage.
- mudita 4y agoHere’s an old slatestarcodex post with a collection of more “sentimental maps”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartography/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartograph...