Sacred Sites
Brilliantly painted sacred worldwide sites bringing legends to life.
by Multiple artists (legendary sites) · 1883
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The record
Lurking in Watkins, Londons famous esoteric shop in the pouring rain today, was a surprise waiting to find me. A treasure trove of brilliantly painted sacred sites, each with a story to tell that - thanks to the imagination and genius of its creators - brings legends to life. This is at once a workable tarot and a superb pictorial collection of 78 sacred sites from around the world. The artwork is painstakingly detailed, and (thank goodness) has been printed at a higher resolution than many of the offerings from Lo Scarabeo, US Games or Llewellyn so fine details can be appreciated easily. Looking at these paintings is like gazing upon the delicate brushstrokes on a Faberge egg. No pun intended Lo Scarabeo have come up Trumps with this one. It cannot be faulted. There are, unlike so many of lo Scarabeos decks, no printed titles on any of the cards (especially annoying when rendered in six languages). This deck is intended for connoisseurs of the tarot, who would in any event know the identity of the cards, simply by the minimalist categorisations (numbers on the majors and the pips, symbols on the court cards a helmet for knaves, a horse-head for knights, crowns for queens and
The cards
