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SlytherinSistah · 08-14-2008, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Cale wrinkled his eyebrows. He could name the decks, alright, but explaining them would be a different story. "Well, the Rider-Waite deck is the most popular deck in modern day Divination, I think, but there are others like the Thoth, Greenwood, and the Visconti-Sforza, to name a few."

"Correct, sir! Four points to Gryffindor."

Quote:

Originally Posted by n1fanharry

Barry only new 2 or 3 he said " Theres that Golden dawn Tarrot thingy and um Toth" that was all he knew and he didn`t have any idea what it meant

"Good. Those are two of the more popular decks as well. Two points."

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Originally Posted by cake.ninjak

Ryan reacted quickly to Professor Kapoor and snatched the deck out of the air. His quidditch reactions had really helped him for situations like this.

He quickly pulled out his wand, muttered a charm to clean his hands, and returned his wand to it's place in his robes.

As soon as he did so, he raised his hand and said, "The only ones that come to mind are the Major and the Minor Arcana. Do those count? I'm not even sure if those are different decks. There is the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, as well. This is where I start getting confused though."

He looked back down at the deck, flipping it over in his hands and examining each card carefully.

He had an idea, though, and pulled out a book he had rented from the library. He flipped through, looking for decks. Once he had found a few, he started naming them off. "There's also the Tarot de Marseilles, Minchiate, Tarocchi di Alan, Tarot de la Nature, a deck by Etteilla, whatever that means, Thoth Tarot, Golden Dawn Tarot, Paul Foster Case's B.O.T.A. Tarot, and.....WOW. There really are a lot of decks. I don't even want to read them all off, there are so many."

"Very good! Nine points. Etteilla was a name of an earlier Cartomancer. If you recall,", he said addressing not just Ryan, but the class, in general, "your first homework assignment had you matching up common symbols in Divination with things like colours and planets. Etteilla was the fellow who designed a tarot deck around some of these associations like the four elements, humours and western astrology. He sort of married certain occult concepts together for the western culture of that time." The professor took out his well-worn deck.

"The major and the minor arcana are part of every deck, but before we talk about them, would anyone else like to offer up any other examples of cartomantic decks? It's alright if you've already given examples. I just want you to familiarize yourself with different decks."

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SlytherinSistah DoM Ramora Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Merlin Foresaken PST Posts: 5,432 x9 x3	C.R.E.A.M \| Haitian Sensation \| Shark Patronus \| Your Huckleberry \| T's ClayBaby Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom Cale wrinkled his eyebrows. He could name the decks, alright, but explaining them would be a different story. "Well, the Rider-Waite deck is the most popular deck in modern day Divination, I think, but there are others like the Thoth, Greenwood, and the Visconti-Sforza, to name a few." "Correct, sir! Four points to Gryffindor." Quote: Originally Posted by n1fanharry Barry only new 2 or 3 he said " Theres that Golden dawn Tarrot thingy and um Toth" that was all he knew and he didn`t have any idea what it meant "Good. Those are two of the more popular decks as well. Two points." Quote: Originally Posted by cake.ninjak Ryan reacted quickly to Professor Kapoor and snatched the deck out of the air. His quidditch reactions had really helped him for situations like this. He quickly pulled out his wand, muttered a charm to clean his hands, and returned his wand to it's place in his robes. As soon as he did so, he raised his hand and said, "The only ones that come to mind are the Major and the Minor Arcana. Do those count? I'm not even sure if those are different decks. There is the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, as well. This is where I start getting confused though." He looked back down at the deck, flipping it over in his hands and examining each card carefully. He had an idea, though, and pulled out a book he had rented from the library. He flipped through, looking for decks. Once he had found a few, he started naming them off. "There's also the Tarot de Marseilles, Minchiate, Tarocchi di Alan, Tarot de la Nature, a deck by Etteilla, whatever that means, Thoth Tarot, Golden Dawn Tarot, Paul Foster Case's B.O.T.A. Tarot, and.....WOW. There really are a lot of decks. I don't even want to read them all off, there are so many." "Very good! Nine points. Etteilla was a name of an earlier Cartomancer. If you recall,", he said addressing not just Ryan, but the class, in general, "your first homework assignment had you matching up common symbols in Divination with things like colours and planets. Etteilla was the fellow who designed a tarot deck around some of these associations like the four elements, humours and western astrology. He sort of married certain occult concepts together for the western culture of that time." The professor took out his well-worn deck. "The major and the minor arcana are part of every deck, but before we talk about them, would anyone else like to offer up any other examples of cartomantic decks? It's alright if you've already given examples. I just want you to familiarize yourself with different decks."