Parzival
Thoth Without Taglines?
I'm trying to tolerantly comprehend the circumcision of the Thoth Tarot. ( Artus 15 may be already circumcised, anyway. Joke .) Seriously now, doesn't the Tarot starting with the Marseilles conjoin Number, Name, and Picture in the Major Arcana? Did not Crowley and Harris intend to keep to this tradition? Did he not significantly change "Temperance" to "Art" and "Strength" to "Lust", etc.? Is there not an important interplay and combination of meaning through Number with non-verbal Image with Name? Possibly some see a need to expunge the words/names, like Akhnaton tried to do with "Amon-Ra". But isn't this editing a little too much? (Obviously, if you buy it, you can do to it what you will.)
I'm trying to tolerantly comprehend the circumcision of the Thoth Tarot. ( Artus 15 may be already circumcised, anyway. Joke .) Seriously now, doesn't the Tarot starting with the Marseilles conjoin Number, Name, and Picture in the Major Arcana? Did not Crowley and Harris intend to keep to this tradition? Did he not significantly change "Temperance" to "Art" and "Strength" to "Lust", etc.? Is there not an important interplay and combination of meaning through Number with non-verbal Image with Name? Possibly some see a need to expunge the words/names, like Akhnaton tried to do with "Amon-Ra". But isn't this editing a little too much? (Obviously, if you buy it, you can do to it what you will.)