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The taxonomy of decks of cards

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Scandinavianhermit

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When I now look back on the past thirty-five years, or actually more, I wish I had learned certain things before I bought some decks, and I wish to help others avoid buying another deck than they intended to buy.

 

For instance, someone, who wish to buy a Sibilla deck, and not something else than a Sibilla deck, should know, that a Sibilla Indovina does not follow the structure generally known as a 'Sibilla' (I will return to this subject matter in a later blogpost). Similarly, @reall remarked four years ago, that people in their surroundings think of the 36 card Traditionelle Wahrsagekarten deck, when they ask for 'a tarot deck'. It follows, that these persons would be surprised (and maybe disappointed), if they ended up with an actual 78 card tarot deck derived from Milanese tarot instead, because that wasn't what they expected. 

 

The field may seem overwhelming at first, so I will try to –step by step– disentangle the confusion surrounding the matter, as far as my knowledge goes, and write a buyer's guide, as it were. I admit, that I have still very much to learn, and some parts of the landscape are still foreign terrain to me. However: buyer's remorse can be avoided. In a manner, I will try to pass the torch. 

 

Experienced diviners, art historians or folklorists will not find any surprising here.

 

To be continued.

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