Final thoughts on the Egyptian Tarot (Alasia)
After two weeks of doing readings for both myself and some other folks, I'd like to add a few thoughts to my original impressions of the deck.
First off, I have to take back a little bit of what I said about the artwork. My original feeling was that it was kind of "flat" and static. But I have to alter that a little bit. I have found that as I examine the cards during a reading, they have more life than when I'm just kind of going through the deck. I still love the background texture of the papyrus that they're painted on and have grown to love the deck.
It is of course Thoth based and it seems to have the same kind of feel that the Thoth deck does. The Egyptian theme fits well with that.
The multi-lingual titles did turn out to be slightly distracting, but only slightly. The images and numbers on the cards of the Majors were usually good enough and I rarely found myself looking at those titles anyway. And really, it was the same with the Minors - the pips were illustrated with very clear images of the appropriate suit symbol, so the titles weren't needed.
Overall, I'm very glad to have connected with this deck. And my sister was quite thrilled to hear that I was using it.