Thoughtful
Jeffrih l also noticed quite a few mistakes whilst reading the book which was irritating. Obviously has not been proof read before publication.
I wouldn't be surprised if this were true. I had precisely the same thought about their "Learning Lenormand" book a few years ago.
For me, this book is worth it because it did what I wanted it to do- it got me excited about the RWS and learning about it again! I've been playing with other decks for quite a while, and had kind of forgotten what riches were still waiting for me to discover in the good old RWS!
High School English was many decades ago, but my memory is that "He" should refer to the last male name that precedes the word. That would be Waite. It refers to Levi though, which I only found out by breaking my flow of reading and looking at the End Notes. I was willing to chalk that up to either bad memory on my part or the difference between American and the Queen's English. It still would've been quite easy to start that sentence with "Levi gives the creatures...." and avoid all confusion....The design is here based on Levi, which Waite terms a "hypothetical reconstruction." He gives the creatures as the sphinx, Typhon (as a snake), and while not referring to it directly in the card description, the Hermanubis.
So here's where I get really annoyed. I go to the website. None of the 20 circles shows the Wheel. After looking on both pages for a search feature and not finding one, I finally click the + near the bottom of the page. Buried in the middle of the text that appears is a Search box. I type in first Wheel and then Hermanubis and get no search results. As I'm typing this I think to do a search on Levi. No results. So if the info is there, it doesn't come up in a search. And if it's not there, the book shouldn't have told people to go to the website "for more detailed analysis" when there is no analysis at all on the website! And if there's no info on Hermanubis in the Key Symbols section then it shouldn't have been included in that section....Waite does not mention this in Pictorial Key to the Tarot. For more detailed analysis, please visit our website....