Le Fanu
No. I don't know well, but I don't think it is...Aerin said:Is it really, really Thoth??? (To someone who knows Thoth well, I don't.)
No. I don't know well, but I don't think it is...Aerin said:Is it really, really Thoth??? (To someone who knows Thoth well, I don't.)
Remind me next time you get cravings and I can send you mine.OctoberGwen said:What is it with this deck? I've bought and traded it twice now. When I have it, I enjoy it briefly and then inevitably think, "Why do I have this in my house?" After it's been gone for a while, I get a sudden inexplicable craving for it again.
No, I think it is that the Tree of Life stuff in the book and the Kabbalah references bear some similarities to what people expect from Thoth. Plus quite a few of the cards - but not all - echo the Thoth. I always find, for example, the 2 of Wands (gyrating warrior gripping firmly on his spear) reminds me more of "Dominion" in the Thoth than the RWS equivalent. Plus the 7 of Cups has a kind of greeny gloop and "debauched" atmosphere. Touches like this, but it isn't particularly emphatic. Lillie posted on it somewhere (maybe at the beginning of this thread).Grizabella said:Does it say somewhere in the book that it's Thoth-based? How do you know it is?
Le Fanu said:Plus quite a few of the cards - but not all - echo the Thoth. I always find, for example, the 2 of Wands (gyrating warrior gripping firmly on his spear) reminds me more of "Dominion" in the Thoth than the RWS equivalent. Plus the 7 of Cups has a kind of greeny gloop and "debauched" atmosphere.
Le Fanu said:Maybe I should give this deck another go, but - I'm the opposite - Vampyres (or vampires) go with winter and autumn. Now's not the time for me. But I should give it another try.
It's probably the most readable exclusively vampire deck (for me anyway).
With summer, I'm onto other things. I also find with decks that, more and more, I have to wait till all the hype dies down before I can take a deck on its own terms, undistracted.