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Generally it may be said that Waite favoured replacing pagan references in GD material with Christian ones.
I'm surprised by that answer. I had been under the impression that the inconsistencies were because he was didn't want to reveal too much. Not to be flip, but then how do you determine which things he may have done to conceal the secrets he was honor bound to protect and which he just changed on his own because he wanted to?
And in so doing, he, in effect, reverted to some extent to the historical decks, as can be seen by comparing the Waite Trumps to those of the Golden Dawn and the Marseille. The B.O.T.A. Trumps, although mostly based on those of the Waite, show even more similarity to the Marseille.Generally it may be said that Waite favoured replacing pagan references in GD material with Christian ones.
The important thing is that the Waite deck is internally consistent. PKT can be somewhat misleading in places, but it does not exactly lie.
I'm surprised by that answer. I had been under the impression that the inconsistencies were because he was didn't want to reveal too much. Not to be flip, but then how do you determine which things he may have done to conceal the secrets he was honor bound to protect and which he just changed on his own because he wanted to?
And in so doing, he, in effect, reverted to some extent to the historical decks, as can be seen by comparing the Waite Trumps to those of the Golden Dawn and the Marseille. The B.O.T.A. Trumps, although mostly based on those of the Waite, show even more similarity to the Marseille.
Of course Waite lies, most blatantly in the order of the Trumps. Things like the cat may be attributed to stretching the truth in order to conceal secrets but the ordering is the one thing that severely disrupts the internal consistency. Although he does not blab and give the kabbalistic attributions they are still inherent everywhere meaning that the roles each Court plays is wrong. This could lead to a chain reaction upending the whole book, but somehow he manages to keep most of the book and deck alright. Enough for me to give him a pass, this time. ......
BOTA Temperance is almost overkill: dumping water on a big cat (lion, Leo, fire sign) and dripping fire on a raptor (eagle, Scorpio, water sign). It's a crazy card. Even the rainbow is reversed from how it occurs in nature. Normally the longest wavelength color, red, is that of the longest arc (the top one), and the colors have progressively shorter wavelengths until the shortest visible wavelength, violet, on the shortest (bottom) arc.One BOTA trump that isn't more similar to the TdM than Waite is the infamous Temperance -- she finally lost her pitcher juggling act .......