Fortune, something all those who play lotteries need and want. The concept of fortune has been present in popular consciousness since the Roman Empire, it certainly did not disappear with the ascendancy of Christianity during the Middle Ages.
In City of God, St. Augustine argued against the continuing presence of the goddess Fortuna in popular mentality: “How, therefore, is she good, who without discernment comes to both the good and to the bad? It profits one nothing to worship her if she is truly fortune...let the bad worship her...this supposed deity”.
The image of the Wheel of Fortune proliferated throughout the Middle Ages, depicted in stained glass windows, manuscripts...etc. To emphasise her supreme importance, Fortune was always represented as larger than life. The medieval representations of her usually depict her as an unstable dualism with one face smiling and the other frowning. Often she was depicted as blindfolded and without scales to suggest her blindness to justice.
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