Allegorical maps of love, courtship, and matrimony

[prismatic]

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/allegorical-maps-of-love-courtship-and-matrimony/

[texaslonghorn5]

> 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 → texaslonghorn5]

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

[mudita]

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