Jodorowsky-Camoin Tarot de Marseille
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Modern restoration/revision of the Tarot de Marseille, based on Nicolas Conver's Tarot. The authors say their goal was to rediscover the symbols, the purpose, and the primary meaning of this monument of Western culture - as stated on Philippe Camoin's website.
The deck is essentially a modified Nicolas Conver tarot, with modifications that include :
- Added colors. To the original red, blue, light blue, green, black, yellow and flesh color scheme, the authors added purple and orange colors.
- Added details from other decks. Details taken from or inspired by many other decks have been added, such as but not limited to :
- a door on La Maison Dieu taken from a J.Jerger Besançon deck,
- dices on Le Bateleur table as in Jean Noblet's tarot,
- snakelike shapes on La Tempérance as in Jean Dodal deck,
- egg added on La Papesse (allegedly seen in Bernardin's deck)
- Added details. Details apparently not originating in any existing tarot deck have been added, such as but not limited to :
- a curved blade on Le Bateleur table,
- tetragrammaton added in XIII's head,
- various alchemical symbols on many cards
- lunar buttons(sic) on the Hanged Man
- phenix shape on the two of Coupe and four of Deniers
The process of creation of this deck which was initially mostly described as a scientific restauration has since its publishing be a bit more detailled, Philippe Camoin stated that the deck was not just based on historical researches, but that many part of their work has been inspired by the magical world(sic) - making the qualification of scientific work extremely arguable.
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1998
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Camoin
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"In 1998, the Tarot of Marseille rediscovered a symbolic structure which had been lost over time thanks to Philippe Camoin and Alexandre Jodorowsky. The Tarot of Marseille, Camoin and Jodorowsky, contains all the symbolisms already known and more than a dozen new symbols of which professors, experts and amateurs will not be able to do without any more. Only the colours are radically different from certain Tarot of Marseille cards which only contain red, yellow and blue - without light blue or any other colours involved. Originally, these primary colours simply red, yellow and blue, noninitiatory, were copied from a Camoin pack dated in 1880 at the time of the industrial era and the appearance of machines. These machines being only able to print the four primary colours. In the years 1860-1880, Philippe Camoin’s ancestor, who was the last and unique CardMaster in Marseille felt, indeed, constraint to invent these new colours that could adapt to the machines. Thus was born a particular edition created for mass production. It is these invented primary colours and noninitiatory from 1880 which were used, 50 years later, by other printers. Since 1930, for over 70 years, the public wrongly thought that these colours had an esoteric significance. Since 1998, the new colours of the Tarot of Marseille, Camoin and Jodorowsky, are the reflection of the authentic alchemical tradition. This re-composition is a complex process of comparison between the symbols present on many decks in Europe and the whole process according to the authentic tradition of the Tarot of Marseille. This work calls for an extremely precise initiatory logic. It is not just a question of copy or restoration as we know of, from an older deck of cards. The term "Restoration of the Original Tarot" implies a restoration of a complex philosophical system. The Tarot is indeed regarded as an initiatory knowledge, a metaphysical machine where the cards are only a support. Together, Philippe Camoin and Alexandre Jodorowsky re-composed the symbolism of the Tarot of Marseille as it should have been originally, the original deck having disappeared from the general public. They have also added their specific elements of which they hold the secrecy like Master Card Makers have always done in the past.The original symbols have been lost with time over generations of Master Card Makers. The discovery of the egg situated at the bottom of the eagle in the "Emperor" card was a decisive moment and confirmed that a quantity of forgotten symbols were hidden : waiting to be revealed. The other discoveries can help understand the logic with which the Tarot was originally built. Among the other restored symbols easily understood by the general public, we can add : the two snakes intertwined at the foot of "Temperance" and the four elements in the Ace of Cups."
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"We tried to re-create the Tarot of Marseilles as it was originally. The original deck is now extinct. Its re-creation was a complex process of comparing all the symbols existing in the various European decks. This work was done in the Tarot of Marseilles' Tradition by its heir, with an extremely precise esoteric logic."
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