nefertari/sphinx has a book??????

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 29 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Maan	29 Jul 2002
Hi all, I was just looking arround on the world wice web when i stumbled up on a dutch tarot + book set. Its called " Egyptische tarot"....so i checked it out and the cards looked just like the tarots of the sphinx. I looked even more closely and the deck was also made by S. Alasia. The book was written by Giordano Berti.....does that ring a bell? Not for me anyway. So would it be possible that there is a book for this deck but its only trancleted in dutch? I could not find it anywhere at amazon us or other english language sides. And i think that's very strange!!!!!!!!

catlin	30 Jul 2002
Hi Maan, There was a book for 4 Egyptian themed decks announced at Königsfurt-Verlag for last October but until now I still haven'T seen it in Germany. Maybe it was only released in Duthc as there was another deck/books set called "Karma-Karten" also by S. Alasia at first released in Dutch and then in German (there are still some misspellings/Dutch words in the German edition LOL).

truthsayer	30 Jul 2002
i have the nefertari and sphynx but to my knowledge i don't know of a book about them except a very unsatisfactory LWB. if one comes out in english, i definitely want it.

Cerulean	31 May 2003
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0738704482/ref=nosim/aeclectic/ My new to me catalogue from Lo Scarabeo announced the book by G. Berti and Tiberio Gonard, a 160 page book in black and white. The book takes information from Jean Baptiste Pitois and the images are from Silvana Alasia. It says December for the U.S., which means if you try Amazon.com in England or perhaps even Alidastore.com in November-December, it may be available as a set earlier. I gave away my Sphinx once I got the Nerferteri ( a best seller, says Lo Scarabeo's catalogue), so I'm not inclined to get the Egyptian. But I think those allergic to gold foil and like the black backgrounds of the Nerferteri scans would find this a handsome alternative. I'll be glad to get the book separately, maybe next year if available. Mari

Macavity	31 May 2003
That must be great news. Thanks Indeed! Quite a number of the images differ quite a bit from the traditional e.g. RWS ideas and (I believe) some attempt is made to reflect this in the LWB. But then I don't mind (LW) books, especially if they seem to contain information from the artwork/artist. I mean, they have a heck of a job interpreting the Mona Lisa - without a LWB, but I guess it keep art historians solvent? (joking) :D Macavity

Rusty Neon	01 Jun 2003
Quote: Originally posted by Mari_Hoshizaki http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0738704482/ref=nosim/aeclectic/ My new to me catalogue from Lo Scarabeo announced the book by G. Berti and Tiberio Gonard, a 160 page book in black and white. The book takes information from Jean Baptiste Pitois and the images are from Silvana Alasia. It says December for the U.S., which means if you try Amazon.com in England or perhaps even Alidastore.com in November-December, it may be available as a set earlier. I checked the amazon link. The cards illustrated on the book cover look like their from Alasia's _other_ Egyptian deck, the LS Egyptian Tarot. http://www.learntarot.com/eydesc.htm I wonder how much in the book's content would be specific to the major and minor arcana cards of Alasia's Sphynx/Nerfertari decks.

Cerulean	01 Jun 2003
Here's the description from the catalog: The studies of Jean Baptiste Pitois, together with the stupendous images by Silvana Alasia allow cartomantic magic to be throroughly explored. The myseries of ancient Egyptian knwoledge are revealed Arcanum after Arcanum throught description of an anchanting initiatory rite. Now I may be wrong I did like the combination of G. Berti and T. Gonard in the Visconti Gold deck, but that's my taste. The book had black and white images of the cards for the deck and each card was fully described at least with a page or page and half for each major. I also found the Fey book devoted to that deck to be comprehensive to that deck. When I read thin Egyptian-translated paperbacks and online bits and pieces of some recitals of Osirus' night journey through the land of the dead to the final chariot of the sun, I've heard that old-fashioned popular fans of Tarot and Egypt tried to mesh this together. Complete with references to Chalcadean 'daemons' and the astrological decans and the seasonal year beginning with the Nile Valley springtime floods, etc...anyway, I was interested in seeing what the historical Italian view of this was...

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