hannahma
Hi, I'm a new Tarot user who started off with an Egyptian Tarot deck because of my long time interest in Egypt. I have made a stab at learning hieroglyphics (laboriously photocopied Gardiner's 500-page "Egyptian Grammar" and so forth). The cards have various "inscriptions" on them, but from what I can puzzle out, the hieroglyphics don't seem to refer to either the content of the cards or the dieties supposedly represented. In fact, they don't seem to make any sense at all, although my Egyptian isn't good enough to be sure. Does anyone know if these inscriptions are from some actual source? the Book of the Dead, maybe? I find it odd that a card that supposedly refers to Ptah or Anubis doesn't name these deities but appears to name some other. On another card depicting the Sun Disc, the name of Aten-Ra does appear twice. Very odd.