Minoan Tarot - Ellen Lorenzi-Prince
Full 78 card Tarot Deck in Box with guide booklet.
Each card of the Minoan Tarot is based upon an original work of the painters, sculptors, jewellers and potters who lived thousands of years ago. Unlike their contemporaries in Egypt or Babylonia, the Bronze Age people of Crete did not exalt kingship, war nor death, nor conceive of a vast distance between Gods and humanity. Instead these people celebrated the presence of the Goddess, the beauty of the natural world, and their own sexuality and creativity. The Minoan Tarot describes a lively, peaceful, sacred, and technologically advanced society, that is no fantasy but is part of our true history.
Many of the archetypes of the Major Arcana become more playful, more present, and more sacred in the Minoan Tarot, and the cards are renamed in keeping with their culture. For example: with images of evil, oppression, or addiction unavailable in surviving Minoan art, the Devil card becomes a priestess lost in Ecstasy. The success of individuals are not glorified but the eternal sacred story, so the Empress and Emperor become the Goddess and the God.
Full 78 card Tarot Deck in Box with guide booklet.
Each card of the Minoan Tarot is based upon an original work of the painters, sculptors, jewellers and potters who lived thousands of years ago. Unlike their contemporaries in Egypt or Babylonia, the Bronze Age people of Crete did not exalt kingship, war nor death, nor conceive of a vast distance between Gods and humanity. Instead these people celebrated the presence of the Goddess, the beauty of the natural world, and their own sexuality and creativity. The Minoan Tarot describes a lively, peaceful, sacred, and technologically advanced society, that is no fantasy but is part of our true history.
Many of the archetypes of the Major Arcana become more playful, more present, and more sacred in the Minoan Tarot, and the cards are renamed in keeping with their culture. For example: with images of evil, oppression, or addiction unavailable in surviving Minoan art, the Devil card becomes a priestess lost in Ecstasy. The success of individuals are not glorified but the eternal sacred story, so the Empress and Emperor become the Goddess and the God.
Full 78 card Tarot Deck in Box with guide booklet.
Each card of the Minoan Tarot is based upon an original work of the painters, sculptors, jewellers and potters who lived thousands of years ago. Unlike their contemporaries in Egypt or Babylonia, the Bronze Age people of Crete did not exalt kingship, war nor death, nor conceive of a vast distance between Gods and humanity. Instead these people celebrated the presence of the Goddess, the beauty of the natural world, and their own sexuality and creativity. The Minoan Tarot describes a lively, peaceful, sacred, and technologically advanced society, that is no fantasy but is part of our true history.
Many of the archetypes of the Major Arcana become more playful, more present, and more sacred in the Minoan Tarot, and the cards are renamed in keeping with their culture. For example: with images of evil, oppression, or addiction unavailable in surviving Minoan art, the Devil card becomes a priestess lost in Ecstasy. The success of individuals are not glorified but the eternal sacred story, so the Empress and Emperor become the Goddess and the God.