Mi-Shell
This deck was on my wish list for quite some time and when I saw it in a store in Ottawa my left hand stretched out and grabbed it and has held on since.
OK : I know about ALL the controversies around Native inspired decks!!!
This one sure has its share of controversies!
However, this is not what this thread is intended for.
I love the artwork and since this LWB of this LoScarabeo deck is -in my humble opinion unusable at best,
I will -just for myself and other deck owners -maybe - shed some light into just WHAT is ON the cards: = the artwork and the meaning of whatever we find on individual cards. Now, of course I do not know what the artist’s thoughts were, when creating the paintings,- I wish I could ask or we would get some input from there!!!!!!
But many of the paintings show beautiful and evocative scenes right out of the middle of the lore and legends = the tribal wisdom of the Lakota, Mandan , Hidatsa , Ojibwa and other tribes !!!!
I - and others, who have this background of the Sacred mythology- can therefore interpret these cards / artwork in a much deeper sense than will ever be possible uising the LWB --from now on being referred to by me as the BWB = Bad White Book --- pun intended!
What do I mean by all this smart talk??
OK: examples:
Queen of Chalices: ----- why is she not the MOTHER of Water???? = a title much more in keeping with First Nation’s traditions....
Ok: She is the Woman who married a Bear from the legend of the same name....
Ace of Swords: there we have Anishenabe culture hero Nanabush/ Nanaboozho - the rabbit man(= rabbit Guardian in the sky,)fighting the powerful underwater monster that ate one of his Wolf-brothers, sons of Maheengun the Wolf.(Wolf-Manitou)
In the Knight of Chalices we see Nanabush in the early spring = back in human form ( transformed back from rabbit to human) on the back of Maheengun returning to his People. The mix of dwellings in the painting show teepees and round-huts = we looook at a Mandan village
This miracle happens when the moon is full in spring and Nanabush can drink fresh = not frozen spring water = a variant of the story the Mandan people cherish. Further north this magical event happens later in the year,when th first frogs sing.....
There is much more to the legend than that...
Next: Strength shows Nanabush and One Tooth , one of Maheengun’s sons..... and guess what: he lost a tooth!!! that is why the card looooks like “Wolf at Dentist”
Next:
in the 5 of Chalices we see Longotter, Guardian of the first degree of the Midewewin Medicine Lodge of the Ojibwa = as evidenced by the Otter Bundle and its red and blue prayer flags.......
To read more of just WHO Longotter is, I invite you into the Teaching Tent in the Spirituality Forum...
Next:
The LOVERS shows a scene from a Micmac tribe of Eastern Canada
----I could go on and on here!!!
Is anybody interested in my ramblings here?????
Ok: There are also BIIIIIG inconsistencies:
3 of Chalices: The BWB talks about Crow the card shows a crow BUT the meaning given in theBWB is for Tupulogaukuk the Raven and Creator trickster of West coast mythology!!
Crow is the sentinel over the camp and the Keeper of the Sacred Law known it us here as karma and understood as karma of cause and effect in nature and ecology....
4 of Chalices : the card shows a moose the BWB says elk and the few words written mach some aspects of ELK Medicine as in Wapiti, but not Hottah the Moose, symbol for the balance of male and female attributes in a being -as in balance of gentleness and brute strength.
Ok, enough writing done here!
I am not sure if anyone is interested in this and has the deck -gathering dust somewhere....
To what I have written here I will try to ad the scans of the cards ---- =if I get onto the other computer with the scanner attached!
Let me know, if I am just muttering to myself here or if anyone is “into this” and willing to ad or ask or whatever...
In Beauty and in Balance
Mi-Shell
Scans to follow later today....
OK : I know about ALL the controversies around Native inspired decks!!!
This one sure has its share of controversies!
However, this is not what this thread is intended for.
I love the artwork and since this LWB of this LoScarabeo deck is -in my humble opinion unusable at best,
I will -just for myself and other deck owners -maybe - shed some light into just WHAT is ON the cards: = the artwork and the meaning of whatever we find on individual cards. Now, of course I do not know what the artist’s thoughts were, when creating the paintings,- I wish I could ask or we would get some input from there!!!!!!
But many of the paintings show beautiful and evocative scenes right out of the middle of the lore and legends = the tribal wisdom of the Lakota, Mandan , Hidatsa , Ojibwa and other tribes !!!!
I - and others, who have this background of the Sacred mythology- can therefore interpret these cards / artwork in a much deeper sense than will ever be possible uising the LWB --from now on being referred to by me as the BWB = Bad White Book --- pun intended!
What do I mean by all this smart talk??
OK: examples:
Queen of Chalices: ----- why is she not the MOTHER of Water???? = a title much more in keeping with First Nation’s traditions....
Ok: She is the Woman who married a Bear from the legend of the same name....
Ace of Swords: there we have Anishenabe culture hero Nanabush/ Nanaboozho - the rabbit man(= rabbit Guardian in the sky,)fighting the powerful underwater monster that ate one of his Wolf-brothers, sons of Maheengun the Wolf.(Wolf-Manitou)
In the Knight of Chalices we see Nanabush in the early spring = back in human form ( transformed back from rabbit to human) on the back of Maheengun returning to his People. The mix of dwellings in the painting show teepees and round-huts = we looook at a Mandan village
This miracle happens when the moon is full in spring and Nanabush can drink fresh = not frozen spring water = a variant of the story the Mandan people cherish. Further north this magical event happens later in the year,when th first frogs sing.....
There is much more to the legend than that...
Next: Strength shows Nanabush and One Tooth , one of Maheengun’s sons..... and guess what: he lost a tooth!!! that is why the card looooks like “Wolf at Dentist”
Next:
in the 5 of Chalices we see Longotter, Guardian of the first degree of the Midewewin Medicine Lodge of the Ojibwa = as evidenced by the Otter Bundle and its red and blue prayer flags.......
To read more of just WHO Longotter is, I invite you into the Teaching Tent in the Spirituality Forum...
Next:
The LOVERS shows a scene from a Micmac tribe of Eastern Canada
----I could go on and on here!!!
Is anybody interested in my ramblings here?????
Ok: There are also BIIIIIG inconsistencies:
3 of Chalices: The BWB talks about Crow the card shows a crow BUT the meaning given in theBWB is for Tupulogaukuk the Raven and Creator trickster of West coast mythology!!
Crow is the sentinel over the camp and the Keeper of the Sacred Law known it us here as karma and understood as karma of cause and effect in nature and ecology....
4 of Chalices : the card shows a moose the BWB says elk and the few words written mach some aspects of ELK Medicine as in Wapiti, but not Hottah the Moose, symbol for the balance of male and female attributes in a being -as in balance of gentleness and brute strength.
Ok, enough writing done here!
I am not sure if anyone is interested in this and has the deck -gathering dust somewhere....
To what I have written here I will try to ad the scans of the cards ---- =if I get onto the other computer with the scanner attached!
Let me know, if I am just muttering to myself here or if anyone is “into this” and willing to ad or ask or whatever...
In Beauty and in Balance
Mi-Shell
Scans to follow later today....
