ISIS Tarot de Marseille
Japanese artist's Marseille-style deck with Egyptian goddess iconography and symbolism.
by Tadahiro Onuma · 2010
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I want to thank Alec Satin for bringing this deck to my attention. I saw he scans on his blog, and had to have it! I purchased the deck directly from Mr. Onuma, with not a little trepidation, because I was not that sure how well Japans postal system had recovered from their recent devastating tsunami difficulties. I need not have worried it came through in record time, and in excellent condition! The ISIS Tarot de Marseille is a traditional, 78 card Marseille-style deck, based on the Nicholas Conver Marseille deck (1760). Where the Conver deck was made from wooden block prints, and therefore appears two dimensional, the ISIS deck is three dimensional. The colors are absolutely stunning rich and vibrant, they pop right out at you. Primary colors are used green, blue, red, yellow and light blue, symbolizing, as noted below, the five elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) plus flesh. There is a slightly different view of the colors presented by Jean-Claude Flornoy in his restorations. He presents the seven symbolic colors as white, the color of emotional saturation; black, representing the earth; red, representing blood and suffering; blue, representing blows to the b
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