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  • The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye

    Author(s):
    Lloyd Graham (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Byzantine Studies, History of Art, History of Games and Play, Late Antiquity, Medieval Mediterranean
    Subject(s):
    Byzantine Empire, Educaton, Magic--Religious aspects, Magic, Religions, Idols and images, Civilization, Greco-Roman
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Tarot, Amulets, Talismans, Evil Eye, Apotropaic designs, Byzantine studies, Magico-religious systems, Popular religion, Iconography, Greco-Roman religion
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/fmvw-ch09
    Abstract:
    This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design against the Evil Eye known as the “all-suffering eye”, which frequently occupies the reverse face of Byzantine copper/ bronze “Holy Rider” amulets. The paper identifies compositional elements that correspond in the Evil Eye and Moon card designs, presents reasons why the moon and the Evil Eye might have been thought of as cognates, and considers other likely inputs into the Moon card’s visual program.
    Notes:
    DOI is not yet active at time of depositing in HC database; URL for paper is https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/77344. This paper forms part of a themed issue titled "Pre-Modern 'Pop Cultures'? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (350-1918 CE)," edited by Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino and Zuzana Frantová.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.77344
    Publisher:
    Complutense University, Madrid
    Pub. Date:
    1 March, 2022
    Journal:
    Eikón/Imago
    Volume:
    11
    Issue:
    EI #110
    Page Range:
    71 - 77
    ISSN:
    2254-8718
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    11 months ago
    License:
    Attribution

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