Moonbow
The differences in the Star card seem, at first, to be quite subtle. I find them intriguing and they have set me thinking alot about this card.
Firstly I notice that the Dodal card shows her to have a strange navel, is it an eye or mouth? The Noblet shows her navel as a star, which has also been taken on for the Rodés/Sánchez deck. She also looks, to me, as though she is wearing a headband in the Dodal and this also is depicted in the Rodés/Sánchez deck. The Conver clearly shows her hair flowing freely, as it also does in the Noblet (below).
<-- Dodal | Conver -->
In the Conver she appears to be fully in the water (or on it!) but the Dodal shows her partly on land. I think of her as bathing her feet because of the position that she is in. Also her face is white in the Dodal and the Noblet, but is flesh coloured in the Conver.
The tree on the right of the card also differs and looks like a flame in the Dodal.
These are a few differences that strike me immediately, without looking into the cards deeply, but perhaps are worthy of some discussion. On comparing these with other decks and particularly the Nostradamus, (which robert tells me is an altered Jean Payen deck), the differences become even more interesting, as the Nostradamus shows a tail on the central star (comet?), and therefore the bottom two stars on the right have 'dropped' into a different position. I wonder why they weren't just left out of the scene altogether unless there is a purpose in there being eight stars. Perhaps because XVII = 1+7 = 8. I don't know anything about this deck or where it fits in to the history of the Marseille decks and I suspect its not a card for comparing in an historical sense, more an observation of an interesting difference.
Firstly I notice that the Dodal card shows her to have a strange navel, is it an eye or mouth? The Noblet shows her navel as a star, which has also been taken on for the Rodés/Sánchez deck. She also looks, to me, as though she is wearing a headband in the Dodal and this also is depicted in the Rodés/Sánchez deck. The Conver clearly shows her hair flowing freely, as it also does in the Noblet (below).
In the Conver she appears to be fully in the water (or on it!) but the Dodal shows her partly on land. I think of her as bathing her feet because of the position that she is in. Also her face is white in the Dodal and the Noblet, but is flesh coloured in the Conver.
The tree on the right of the card also differs and looks like a flame in the Dodal.
These are a few differences that strike me immediately, without looking into the cards deeply, but perhaps are worthy of some discussion. On comparing these with other decks and particularly the Nostradamus, (which robert tells me is an altered Jean Payen deck), the differences become even more interesting, as the Nostradamus shows a tail on the central star (comet?), and therefore the bottom two stars on the right have 'dropped' into a different position. I wonder why they weren't just left out of the scene altogether unless there is a purpose in there being eight stars. Perhaps because XVII = 1+7 = 8. I don't know anything about this deck or where it fits in to the history of the Marseille decks and I suspect its not a card for comparing in an historical sense, more an observation of an interesting difference.