Abysmal

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The Abysmal Tarot, or Tarot de L’Abime, is the first deck from alternative French Tarot publishers, Collection Palestrina. Based on the theme of the Prince of Darkness in his many guises and facets, it has 22 cards of demonic and Devilish figures in a ‘gallery of portraits of the manifold Satan’. The twenty-two cards are: Berith I – Belial II – Baalphegor III – Lilith IV – Ashmedai V- Bifrons VI – Magoth VII – Decarabia VIII – Behemoth IX – Gaap X – Caacrinolas XI – Baalzebuth XII – Baba XIII – [untitled] XIV – Bitru XV – Shatan XVI – Furfur XVII – Nocticula XVIII – Astarte XIX – Sammael XX – Abaddon XXI – Alouka Abigor (extra card) Artists Andreas Algersen – XIX, XI, XVIII Andre Julien – IX, V, Berith Aurelia Valentina – XIV, X, VIII Bertrand Schmitt - XII Catherine Barocco - XIII Donatien-Walter Unfer – XX, Abigor Fabrizio Fornaci – III, VII Natacha Glorieux – III, VII Olivier Lebeau – VI, XVI Philippe Barrier – XVII, XXI, II The deck is very non-traditional in a tarot sense, dispensing almost entirely with standard symbolism and is almost a deck of 22 Devil cards. A collaborative deck with contributions from ten different artist’s imaginations, on the whole there is still a cohe

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