Tabula Mundi
22-card Thoth-inspired deck by Rosetta Tarot creator M.M. Meleen.
by M.M. Meleen · Self Published 2014 Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 22 Major Arcana: 22 Deck Tradition: Crowley Thoth Minor Arcana Style: None Rating: stars out of five Where to · 2014
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The record
The Tabula Mundi Tarot is a new Tarot deck from M.M. Meleen, creator of the Rosetta Tarot. While that deck was made in four different styles and mediums to symbolize different suits, here the deck is more unified in character. Being based in its ideas on Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, comparisons are inevitable, yet this deck is not a clone of the other. Rather, Meleen has taken the basic ideas of the Thoth deck, associated Thelemic ideas as well as miscellaneous writings by Crowley himself, and has presented them in new and interesting ways, throwing in much of herself in the process. This provides for new ways of dealing with established ideas and seeing them from different angles, while staying true to the source material. The presentation is superb, and shows real taste and foresight as to use, convenience and aesthetic appeal. Meleen has gone all-out in terms of extras and additional material, something that elevates the deck above its peers. The Special Edition comes in a handsome wooden box with a carving of the card backs on it. It has a slide- open lid, and has a very convenient slit on it for mounting whatever card you happen to be contemplating at the moment. The box al
The cards
