Devil card

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 07 Apr 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

cricket	07 Apr 2002
Don't know if this is where this should go, but... Has anybody ever seen a deck where the Devil card showed a big, hulking, hairy man with downward curving horns as the devil, with one hand over a cage? In the cage was two little demon-type things, and the cage itself seemed to be made of gilded human bodies/body parts. It seemed like it was done in black and white, possibly a pen and ink type thing, but I can't be sure. If nobody ever has, then I'll just take it as a sign I've finally fallen off the deep end. ;)

kayne	08 Apr 2002
Hmmm... Don't know but it sounds pretty devilish! Actually... perhaps it is the sort of thing that guy who designed the aliens in the movie Alien might have done... (What was his name again???) Fear not Cricket - I am sure SOMEONE will know it :)

Geenius at Wrok	08 Apr 2002
"That guy" is H.R. Giger, but I don't know anything about Cricket's deck.

Emily	08 Apr 2002
ahh Kayne, I'm sitting here making my way slowly through the forums and you just reminded me that 'Aliens Special Addition' is coming on in a few minutes lol thanks :) (slightly off topic)

Zhritza	08 Apr 2002
I know the card to which you refer is not in the Giger deck. The images on the cards in the Giger (it's a majors-only deck) were not designed for tarot; they're merely various works of his that someone selected to be slapped onto cards and sold to hapless victims of tarot addiction, like us. The whole premise irritates me a lot... in case you can't tell :rolleyes:. It seems like they sort of pulled it off with the Bosch deck (whoever "they" are), but that's supposed to be really unreadable.

meatbox666	12 Apr 2002
I believe thatdeck iscalled the Baphomet tarot Deck. Geez ...... THAT DECK IS 60 Bucks................... OH GOSH

Zhritza	12 Apr 2002
Quote: Originally posted by meatbox666 I believe thatdeck iscalled the Baphomet tarot Deck. Geez ...... THAT DECK IS 60 Bucks................... OH GOSH The Giger majors-only thing? Nope, it's $15. We recently got it in at Borders; I'm forgetting who publishes it. It comes with a book, too. I guess it must be a revamp, because it's just called "Giger Tarot."

cricket	13 Apr 2002
I guess nobody's heard of it, then? Ah well. It was a long shot anyway. *L* Maybe it was an image to be put in the deck I'm working on.

cricket	14 Apr 2002
I finally got off my tuches and scanned a sketch of the card, as I remember it. This was done minutes after the image jumped up and hit me, and includes notes taken of distinct impressions made at the time. Notes around the edges read: main fig. hunched over, hand on gilt cage of nude human figures, two demons (very dark creatures) captured inside Devil figure almost protective of the cage - moreso than the demons - is looking over shoulder, almost glaring--possibly a challenge to get the evil out? *gilt cage of humans - shows inherent 'goodness of people 'capturing' the more base/animalaistic demons (can control lust, greed, etc.) but still under the influence of the devil *original picture (mental) had devil smiling or smirking - possible influence of the Capricorn sense of humor? --note - dev. has back and down 'goat' horns -has light from u/k **read unknown** source fading to dark shadowed edges - all around very dark card excepting cage/hand (almost as if cage were glowing) and where light from cage strikes devil's face Now just hope this file attachment works. :)

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