Lillie
Le Fanu said:Don't worry, Ross. I was being snarky. It was me!..)
The Majors are - well - like Majors of any system really. Just typical 21st Century Majors. Perhaps only the High Priestess's arrows of Artemis is - taking out the Thoth - unusual for a HP card. So there may be a Thoth reference there. Also, the scans I had seen on-line didn't look particularly anything. It was only when I had the deck in my hand that I noticed.
To be honest, it is in the book where I most sense it, though as others have pointed out it is more Golden Dawn than Thoth except most typical RWS-based decks don't quite opt for those meanings, of satiety, debauch, pleasure..
But in the minors, you get a vague sense that this is what is being referred to. The 2 of Wands/Sceptres is definitely Dominion; Butch, muscled tattoed warrior grasping spear with mighty force. That's not typical RWS. 10 of Grails/Cups definitely shows a woman Satiated (not a rainbow), Nine of Knives/Swords shows blood running down the back wall. 4 of Skulls/Disks shows an austere, regimented fortess with high walls (oh and sultry vampyre and "Powerful" sentry). Just little things like this which I don't think are accidental. There are others...
Ah, thanks.
I've only seen the majors, on that facebook page that's linked at the beginning of the big thread.
I noticed the posture of the world/universe card is a bit Thothy, the cauldron on Temperance/art.
But that sort of stuff crops up in other decks.
It also (and this would do my head in) has the astrological etc glyphs on the cards. Except it has pluto instead of air on the fool, even though it has water on the hanged man.
And I couldn't find one at all on the tower or judgement/aeon.
I have to write the titles like that, the scans I saw had no titles, so I don't know what these cards are actually called.
Anyhow, that inconsistency in the symbols would drive me mad. I'm anal like that.
Still, pretty enough art.