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Egipcios Kier
Argentine occult deck blending Egyptian art with Hebrew and Tree of Life.
by Iglesias Janeiro
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Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.
Kier is Buenos Aires's venerable esoteric publishing house, and the Egipcios Kier is Argentina's great contribution to tarot: created in the early twentieth century in the lineage of occultist Iglesias Janeiro, seventy-eight cards of Egyptian-styled figures on gold grounds, each carrying Hebrew letters, Tree of Life stations and a battery of esoteric correspondences. It belongs to the same genealogy-claiming era as the Brotherhood of Light deck in this catalog, tarot presented as Egyptian initiation, but filtered through the Spanish-language occult tradition that Kier fed for a century.
The deck remains a working standard across Latin America, where generations learned tarot through its correspondences rather than the RWS's scenes, a parallel canon Anglophone histories routinely miss. It suits students of the Hispanic esoteric tradition, correspondence-driven readers, collectors of the Egyptian-revival decks, and anyone whose tarot education began in Spanish. RWS-scene readers will find no scenes, only diagrams with presence, which is the tradition speaking its own dialect.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
The Egipcios Kier Tarot is a 78-card Tarot deck created by an Argentine occultist in the early 20th century The deck has traditional-looking Egyptian artwork with a central gold background, and associates Hebrew letters, the Tree of Life, and other...
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