Rock Art
Brightly colored petroglyphs and pictographs from global rock art sites.
by Jerry Roelen · 1996
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The record
The Rock Art Tarot features brightly colored renditions of rock art. The images are drawn from petroglyphs, pictographs, and intaglios from around the world. The artist and author, Jerry Roelen, spent thirty years visiting rock art sites before creating the deck. The interpretations of the images that form the core of the deck are derived from her own intuitive sense of their meanings and not from any traditional source. She says in the LWB, My emphasis here is on what they represent to me metaphysically; only their original artists know their true purposes and meanings. Most of the cards have been renamed, but the connection to the Rider-Waite-Smith system is generally obvious. In general, the changed names typically reflect a more abstract description of the archetype that the card expresses, rather than the more allegorical approach in traditional decks. For example, the Fool is called Innocence, and the Tower is Unexpected. The four suits are intuition, emotions, intellect, and sensations, corresponding to wands, cups, swords, and pentacles, respectively. Obviously, there is no attempt to show the appropriate number of any suit implement on the numbered cards. The court c
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