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What decks would you consider to have been influenced by the Oswald Wirth designs?
Interesting. I should think that a card whose design was influenced by the Wirth would no longer be what one could with a straight face call Tarot de Marseille. So it surprises me a deck such as Rodes-Sanchez (which makes claims, does it not, to being the Spanish version of TdM?) would have borrowed from Wirth: would it not be more plausible (I'm just askin', to quote the B52s) to think that the Wirth might have been influenced by a particular regional version of TdM (i.e. the R-S)?Someone who used to post here said the sphinx on the Papess' throne in the Rodes-Sanchez TdM was taken from Wirth's deck.
Of course. It would have helped, though, if the artist had read Wirth's book and knew that particular symbols were essential to the meaning of this deck. For instance, it's very important that the flower is just a bud on the Magician - but the LoS deck it's full blown. It could have been a decent deck but for these oversights. I even like the matching with the Picard Minors although the suit/element correspondences are not matched.Somebody has to say it. The Universal Wirth. I know, crap suggestion, but it's true!