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==Development== | ==Development== | ||
Crowley originally intended the Thoth deck to be a six-month project aimed at updating the traditional pictorial symbolism of the Tarot. However, due to increased scope, the project eventually spanned five years, between 1938 and 1943, and both artists died before its publication in 1969 by [[Ordo Templi Orientis]]. | Crowley originally intended the Thoth deck to be a six-month project aimed at updating the traditional pictorial symbolism of the Tarot. However, due to increased scope, the project eventually spanned five years, between 1938 and 1943, and both artists died before its publication in 1969 by [[Ordo Templi Orientis]]. | ||
The meanings behind the cards and the inspiration for the artwork comes from the mythological ''[[Book of Thoth]]'', a [[grimoire]] of secret knowledge given by the god [[Thoth]] to fabled [[magician]] [[Hermes Trismegistus]]. | |||
==Differences from the Rider-Waite Tarot== | ==Differences from the Rider-Waite Tarot== | ||
Crowley renamed several of the [[Major Arcana]] trumps compared to earlier arrangements, and also re-arranged the numerical, [[astrology|astrological]] and Hebrew alphabet correspondences of 4 trumps compared to the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck in accordance with the [[Tarot of Marseilles]], his 1904 book ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' (''Liber AL vel Legis'') and its "New Commentary." | Crowley renamed several of the [[Major Arcana]] trumps compared to earlier arrangements, and also re-arranged the numerical, [[astrology|astrological]] and Hebrew alphabet correspondences of 4 trumps compared to the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck in accordance with the [[Tarot of Marseilles]], his 1904 book ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' (''Liber AL vel Legis'') and its "New Commentary." | ||
In the "New Commentary" and The Book of Thoth, Crowley demonstrates that his trump arrangement forms a double loop in the zodiac-number and letter-number correspondences compared to the Rider–Waite, where there is no loop. There are interpretations as to why the Thoth Tarot deck does not follow Crowley's new arrangement having only a letter-number double loop and one of them is that it follows the same [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]] arrangement as the Rider–Waite deck. | In the "New Commentary" and ''The Book of Thoth'', Crowley demonstrates that his trump arrangement forms a double loop in the zodiac-number and letter-number correspondences compared to the Rider–Waite, where there is no loop. There are interpretations as to why the Thoth Tarot deck does not follow Crowley's new arrangement having only a letter-number double loop and one of them is that it follows the same [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]] arrangement as the Rider–Waite deck. | ||