The Moon card of the Tarot deck may reprise an ancient amuletic design against the Evil Eye
This paper proposes a novel source for –or at least influence on– the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or protot...
Main Author: | Lloyd D. Graham |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2022-03-01
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Series: | Eikón Imago |
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Online Access: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/77344 |
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