Map of the hand

Map of the hand

I now turn the hand round, and I present you with what is really the Map of the Hand; for does it not contain Mounts and Rivers (The Lines) and Islands and Plains like a regular Geographical Map?

In this map some indications given above are repeated and need, therefore, no second interpretation. Leaving the Fingers, Phalanges, Knots and Thumb aside, I reach at once the Hand proper, which is here called.

The Palm—and includes the whole surface of the Hand, from the wrist up to the base of the Fingers, and from the Side of the Hand (next to the thumb) to the Percussion (the striking side of the hand), from the base of the Fourth Finger to the wrist.
It is divided into:
1. The Mounts (or elevations) at the base of each finger and around the hand, called, in the following regular order:
- Mount of Jupiter.
- Mount of Saturn.
- Mount of the Sun.
- Mount of Mercury.
- Upper Mount of Mars
- Mount of the Moon.
- Mount of Venus.
- Lower Mount of Mars.

2. The Palm Proper-including only this portion of the Palm which is not preempted by the Mounts. This Palm Proper (also called the Plain of Mars) is dividing into The Quadrangle and The Triangle, both forming what is called, in common parlance, the Hollow of the Hand.

Over the surface of the whole Palm are found running, like rivers through a Mountainous region, a number of Lines, fourteen of which, by their frequency and distinctness, have been honored with the general appellation of Main Lines.