Anubis

Egypt has been the tarot world's favourite invented ancestor since the eighteenth century, when writers first claimed the cards descended from the Book of Thoth. The Anubis Oracle drops the false genealogy and simply goes to the source: thirty-five cards of the actual Egyptian pantheon and its mythology, painted by Kris Waldherr, with Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf shaping the deck around guided inner journeying rather than fortune-telling. Published by Bear & Company in 2008, it belongs to the meditative wing of oracle design. The honest way to describe its use: each card is a doorway image for reflection inside a mythological landscape, Anubis as guide rather than omen. That framing is sturdier than prediction and truer to how the deck's own material presents itself. It suits readers drawn to Egyptian myth on its own terms, and it pairs naturally with study of the pantheon; readers wanting quick answers to daily questions are holding the wrong deck.