Glastonbury
Glastonbury legend and myth reimagined through tarot archetypes and local history.
by Lisa Tenzin-Dolma · US Games Systems · 1999
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The record
I fell in love with this deck after visiting the small English town of Glastonbury with my boyfriend as a 17th birthday present last year. Glastonbury is a wonderful town full of legend and surrounded by myth and history: so much so that it is often difficult to tell those myths apart from the history! It is certainly an amazing place which manages to house Pagans and Christians alike in an awe-inspiring harmony, and the comfortable, open atmosphere of the town makes Glastonbury seem like a whole world in itself, set apart from the rest of England. This is certainly ironic, considering the fact that in ancient times Glastonbury actually became an island for most of the year, thus giving rise to the Arthurian-Pagan legend of Avalon. What the Glastonbury Tarot aims to do is encapsulate Glastonbury, its inhabitants, history, traditions, and legends, as well as do the unusual and often difficult task of unifying Christian and Pagan history and myth in one deck. These things I think it has managed to do beautifully! Never have I seen a Tarot deck epitomize its theme so deeply and informatively as this one does, and after spending some time with this deck I always feel drawn back to Glas
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