Academic Scholar said:
The Rider Waite-Smith tarot deck has Hebrew letters. Any tarot deck that has Hebrew letters is an abomination and shouldn’t be used by Gentiles, especially SS.
This is an old sermon by HPS Maxine on how the “Devil” tarot card is a Jewish corruption: https://archive.is/LdM6X
These are tarot decks that don’t have the Devil card or Hebrew letters:
Witches Tarot by Ellen Dugan
The Druidcraft Tarot by Philip Carr-Gomm
The Wildwood Tarot by John Matthews and Mark Ryan
The Green Witch Tarot by Ann Moura
Forest of Enchantment Tarot by Lunaea Weatherstone
Thank you for sharing your insightful comment! It has helped me a lot on narrowing down which decks are best suited for us Satanists. Some other ones I saw are hideous and contain Qliphoths and 11-pointed stars (such as the one linked below).
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/552816922994056294/
The Robinwood deck is the most appealing to me yet card XV is titled "the Devil" without any such depiction. The name however shouldn't be a huge issue because it means "Divine" in Hindi (as mentioned by Maxine) and its modern definition and depictions are merely a corruption of the original root word. (What isn't a corruption these days lol).
The Witches Deck seems my next best option yet I'm sort of picky. I don't like how it uses the word "Karma" in place of "Judgement" and "Wheel of the Year" instead of "Wheel of Fortune". Other than that it seems it would be an excellent option, plus the artwork and pagan nature of it is phenomenal. The other ones seem to diverge greatly from the original depictions seen in decks from the early 20th century but I'm sure they work just as well.
I have one question for you about the Devil card. Do we use variations of it the same way as it would be normally used? (For misfortune?) I don't see this as inherently bad (like with the death card) but rather a law of nature that everyone faces daily. Thanks for your time and sorry to talk your ear off! :lol:
As an aside, I wanted to post some things I learned about the history of tarot for other readers who may not know about it.
I was digging hoping to find the first tarot deck ever made but the history is a mess, albeit quite interesting.
I learned that the first deck known to ever exist was the Marziano tarot deck conceived by Marziano da Tortona and created by Michelino da Besozzo in Milan between 1412 and 1425. There are no surviving depictions, though Robert M Place recreated this deck in 2015 based on writings from Tortona. In this deck the trump cards are based on Roman Gods. These cards and the ones that soon followed (in northern Itally) weren't used for divination but rather as playing cards. Various other decks soon followed that portrayed the different positions in monarchy systems. The second deck created was the Visconti-Sforza (1425) named after the Duke of Milan Filippo Visconti and commissioned by his son-in-law. It also just so happens to contain the first depiction of the XV Devil card (horns and all).
In the mid-15th century, Antoine Court encountered a gypsy who used tarot cards in fortune telling. He was convinced that these cards were taken from the lost Book of Thoth which he later wrote about in his books. This inspired French occultist Etteilla to form the Grand Etteilla Tarot deck, the first one made for divination. The "Devil" card here was titled "Violence" and it depicted a winged figure standing on a pillar with two opposing figures below shackled to the pillar, which infers the dichotomy of good and evil.
This gave way to later decks, such as the Rider Waite deck (1910) and the Ordo Templi Orientis' Thoth deck, commissioned by Aleister Crowley and published in 1969.
The history shows that this devil card had always been around, however it was originally created by the Roman monarchy and was integrated into later tarot decks. This has the Vatican's hideous influence written all over it.
I personally believe that since these gypsies came from the Middle East it is more than likely that these practices originated from Egypt. Thoth is the God of the Moon, as well as magic, reckoning, learning and knowledge. Given what we know about the moon's powers divination this would no doubt fall into this category as well.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble! ^_^