Her name was/is Zeleca or Zuleika depending on your accent. She was young, she was beautiful. She was highly psychic, a brilliant priestess and occultist. She lived in a palace. She had servants. She had wealth, status, respect. She was part of the “glamour set” of her day, what some would describe as the “glitterati” of her era. Her good looks and glamour were part of why she had the “position” and status she did.
But her looks were only part of the reason she was where she was. She in a sense had “earned” her job, if you could call it that. She “earned” her role/position through her extraordinary occult and psychic powers. She was clairvoyant “to the max”. She had been selected for her role from among at least tens of thousands of young women. She was “the best of the best”. But deep inside, she was lonely and unhappy. She looked like she “had it all”, but she did not. She was trapped in a cover marriage to a heavily homosexually oriented husband. He would rather be with young men than with her. She knew it. He knew it. Almost everyone around the palace knew it. What she did not have was LOVE. And she yearned for it. What she yearned for was Love with a man of her dreams, all the usual good looks and public image had to be there, but she wanted someone with gifts as good as her own.
Her own cover-marriage hubby was nice. He was popular. But he was not as gifted as she was. And as she knew, far too well, he did not want her. Yes he was happy to have her by his side at public functions and at religious ceremonies. But he did not WANT her, not the way she wanted a husband to want her. He did not want her at night.
Her husband was an Egyptian High Priest and Court Official. Zeleca had been chosen for him as the perfect High Priestess. He knew she was lonely and unhappy. So he bought her a little “slave girl” as an adopted daughter. He hoped it would “fix” Zeleca’s sadness and loneliness. The slave-girl (adopted daughter) “helped”. But her arrival did not fix the problem(s).
Then things “changed”. Potiphar bought a young man from the slave traders. He was good looking and talented. Potiphar probably had “hopes” re his own “prospects” with his new slave.
Zeleca was not the middle-aged woman chasing a younger man, as Christian readings of the story portray her. She was not much older than Joseph. And she fell in love. She went stark raving crazy with love for Joseph. Her psychic fortune telling “gifts” told her plainly that she and Joseph were to have huge numbers of very successful descendants.
But she “misread” those predictions. She was to be the “step mother”. (and more than that later on). It was to be her adopted daughter who would grow up, marry Joseph and have his children.
Even after Joseph was imprisoned, Zeleca visited him in prison every day for months, begging him to “just say the word” to tell her that he loved her, and that she would “fix it” with Potiphar, get the divorce, and rescue Joseph from the prison her lies had put him in.
Her actions caused a scandal that lasted a decade. She was desparate. She believed Joseph was her destiny. She was willing to do anything to “make that destiny happen”. She had nearly gotten him killed in the process – the day he was dragged off to prison, falsely accused of something he never did. It was love-crazed Zeleca who was his accuser. And it was a screaming and crying step-daughter, Asenath, who made Potiphar change his mind about having Joseph executed. Asenath at least sowed enough doubt into Potiphar’s mind to make him suspect that Zeleca was lying.
The Hebrew form of Zeleca’s name is shown below. Its value is “78”, something that is highly significant for Tarot Decks and for “unlocking” Torah Codes.
The numeric values of the letters, reading Right to Left order (The Hebrew way” is:
7-6-30-10-20-5
Total = 78
God’s Sacred 4-Letter Name has the value 26.
The Name is repeated three times in the Priestly Blessing (from which Leonard Nimoy got the “Vulcan Salue”). That three fold repetition of the Name has the value 78. It can be used as a means of unlocking “codes” within the Torah. The Torah is a giant computer database that contains ALL POSSIBLE futures. This is one of the reasons Divination using Tarot Cards (78 cards in a Tarot Deck) is “Taboo.
3 * 26 = 78
78 Cards in a Tarot Deck. Using them to predict the future is a “Lottery”. You could bring up ANY ONE out of trillions of possible futures.
The Magic Cube of 42
A Cube has 8 corners. In the Magic Cube of 42, from which the Torah and creation are generated, the values of the 8 “corner cubes are:
19 6 8 10 18 20 22 9.
Putting those corner Cubes in their “diagonal planes”, we have one plane as:
18 19 10 9
Total 56
and the other “diagonal plane” as
22 8 6 20
Total 56
A Tarot Deck of 78 Cards is made up of 22 Major Arcana (1 Card for each letters of the Hebrew Alphabet) plus 4 “Suits” of 14 Cards for a total of 56 Cards – matching the “corners” of the Magic Cube of 42 and the two sets of 56 Triplets “orbiting” the Magic Cube.
Was Zeleca’s “78 Name” a reflection of her skills? Of a Tarot connection? Or perhaps a Torah Connection?
Zeleca’s “Happy Ending”
Potiphar eventually “snuffed it”. Zeleca fled the scandal, the shame and the humiliation. She became a beggar. Joseph eventually found her. He and Asenath took her in. She lived with them, protected and safe, there with her “grandsons”. Joseph went through a legal marriage ceremony with her. That ensured that as the legal wife of a former Prime Minister (Viceroy) she would have an income for life. Maybe she was destined to end up where she did, from even before she was born . . . .
78 Cards in a Tarot Deck
(6 * 13 = 78)
3 * 26 (God’s Name Value) = 78