Is there a deck...
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 18 Jul 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Le_Corsair |
18 Jul 2003 |
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That shows one of the major racial groups (caucasian, negro, oriental, amerindian) for each of the four suits of the tarot? For each of the cards in that suit, and not just a couple of cards?
Bob :THERM
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| Hedera |
18 Jul 2003 |
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The Merryday tarot shows Asian people on the swords, Native Americans on the Cups, African people on the wands and some sort of (generally) Western European looking people on the pentacles.
Great deck! :)
There should be more decks, I think the Ancestral Path does something similar, but I don't own that one.
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| fairyhedgehog |
18 Jul 2003 |
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Originally posted by Hedera
I think the Ancestral Path does something similar, but I don't own that one.
I do! It's a great deck.
Cups are Britain
Pentacles are Inuit
Wands are Egyptian
Swords are Japanese
It's not just a general ethnic thing - each suit relates to a particular time in that culture's history.
I recommend that deck :)
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| Baby Owl |
18 Jul 2003 |
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The Ancestral Path Tarot uses Native American culture for "Sacred Circles" (replacing pentacles), King Arthur legend for Cups, Japanese culture for Swords, and Egyptian society for Staves (this includes the association with Nubia and mixing of African and Egyptian cultures).
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| Pollux |
18 Jul 2003 |
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And it's not a specificly suit-related thing, but World Spirit has different racial traits for the 78 cards - not a specific race for each suit, but I like it better this way... Races with suits are rather... "skewing"?
There's others, I am sure....
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| CompassRose |
18 Jul 2003 |
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The Motherpeace does, doesn't it? (Of course, it mostly leaves out a different segment of the human race...)
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| truthsayer |
18 Jul 2003 |
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the wheel of change is multi-cultural but doesn't have specific races represent certain suits. i think this and the world spirit are 2 of the best multicultural decks i've used.
daughters of the moon and motherpeace are multicultural, too.
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| Jeannette |
18 Jul 2003 |
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Try The Tarot of the Ages. The majors are Egyptian, the Wands are African, the Cups are Aztec, the Swords are Viking, and the Pentacles are East Indian.
Also, the out-of-print Healing Earth Tarot features native peoples from a variety of cultures -- African tribal, Australian aboriginal, and North and South American native indian peoples. But the various ethnicities are not grouped by suit.
-- Jeannette
http://www.tarotgarden.com
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| Trogon |
20 Jul 2003 |
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Hi Le_Corsair,
The only deck I have that does this is the Haindl Tarot... kind of. Each suit is related to a region and its people, but it really is only shown in the court cards. The Wands relate to India (though apparently not the rest of the Orient). Cups relate to Europe. Swords to Egypt (but not the rest of Africa). And Stones are associated with the native peoples of North America.
The Goddess Tarot is pretty multicultural as well, with goddesses from many cultures featured in the Majors. Along with this each suit relates to the "path" of a particular goddess; Cups is the path of the Roman goddess Venus. Staves, the Norse goddess Freyja. Swords is associated with the Egyptian goddess Isis. And Pentacles with the Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
Hope this has helped...
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