"I also enjoy reading with the Lenormand deck made by Daveluy, which has been beautifully reworked by Lauren Forestell, who specializes in restoring facsimile decks—cleaning up 200 years' worth of card shuffling and human grief. The coloring on the Daveluy is very beautiful. Chromolithography gave an incredibly clear color to everything, and I think it was probably as revolutionary as Technicolor was in the days of the movies."
“我同樣喜歡Daveluy制作的萊諾門(mén)牌,Lauren Forestell現(xiàn)在把它重制過(guò)了,他是一個(gè)復(fù)制過(guò)上下近200年歷史的塔羅牌的專家,Daveluy的牌色彩艷麗,石版印刷術(shù)讓每一種顏色都顯得分明,我認(rèn)為這種技術(shù)革新的意義等同于彩色電影的發(fā)明。”
The illustration on some decks did double duty, providing divinatory tools and scientific knowledge, like the Geografia Tarocchi deck from around 1725. "The Geografia are extraordinary cards, almost like a little encyclopedia of the world with the oracle imagery peeking out at the top," Matthews says. "The actual bit that you read from is just a cigarette-card length. So for example, the hanged man just shows his legs at the top of the card, while the rest of the card has information about Africa or Asia or other places on it."
插圖不僅有占卜學(xué)上的意義,有些時(shí)候它也傳播了科學(xué),比如在約1725年出現(xiàn)的地理塔羅牌。“地理塔羅牌是很特別的,幾乎就是一部小的百科全書(shū),同時(shí)上面又印著占卜用的圖案,”Matthews說(shuō)。“雖然你能讀到的部分只有煙盒一樣大小,舉個(gè)例子,倒吊人這張牌的上面只有他的腿,剩下的部分寫(xiě)著關(guān)于非洲和亞洲的內(nèi)容。”
On the Geografia deck, the symbolic imagery is reduced to a small colored segment at the top of each card; the rest is related to global geography. Via eBay.
eBay上的地理塔羅牌,占卜圖像只占很小一部分,剩下的都是全球地理知識(shí)。