Renaissance Tarot Deck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Tarot Deck write by Brian Williams. This book was released on 2004. Renaissance Tarot Deck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the exquisite artwork of Brian Williams, Renaissance Tarot connects traditional tarot symbology to the splendor of European Renaissance culture and classical mythology. The 22 Major Arcana cards feature the Olympian deities and demi-gods of antiquity. Card titles are in English and Italian. In the booklet, also by classics scholar Brian Williams, each card description identifies both the Greek and Roman deity as well as his related attributes. For example, the Fool is associated with Dionysus/Bacchus and the Magician with Hermes/Mercury. The four suits in the Minor Arcana are represented by four classical myth cycles with an interlocking system of planets, constellations, seasons, and elements. Swords relate to Achilles; Staves to Hercules; Cups to Cupid and Pysche; and Coins to Persephone. The great cities of Renaissance Italy are represented in the court cards. The back design of Renaissance Tarot features a mandala incorporating symbols of the four suits and the four elements. Brian Williams artfully weaves together a rich tapestry of Renaissance imagery.
A Renaissance Tarot
A Renaissance Tarot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Renaissance Tarot write by Brian Williams. This book was released on 1994. A Renaissance Tarot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE RENAISSANCE TAROT DECK TAKES ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE SPLENDOR OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CULTURE AND CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY. THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA CARDS FEATURE THE OLYMPIAN DEITIES AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY. IN THE MINOR ARCANA, THE FOUR SUITS ARE REPRESENTED BY FOUR FAMILIAR MYTH CYCLES, AND THE GREAT CITIES OF RENAISSANCE ITALY ARE REPRESENTED IN THE COURT CARDS.
The Renaissance Tarot
The Renaissance Tarot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Renaissance Tarot write by Jane Lyle. This book was released on 1999. The Renaissance Tarot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring a beautiful, richly symbolic Tarot deck inspired by medieval and Renaissance Europe, and a clear, easy-to-use instructional handbook, this unusual package will appeal to novice and experienced readers, as well as collectors of Tarot cards. 78 color cards.
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Virtue in a Christian World write by Anthony F. D’Elia. This book was released on 2016-01-04. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468), Anthony D’Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.
The Game of Saturn
The Game of Saturn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Game of Saturn write by Peter Mark Adams. This book was released on 2017-06-01. The Game of Saturn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2017 Esoteric Book of the Year As voted by the membership of the Occult of Personality’s Chamber of Reflection Dr. Joscelyn Godwin, Colgate University, emeritus “Besides gratifying the bibliophile, the contents follow scholarly principles, and the notes and documentation are as thorough as one could wish .... Even if only partially provable, The Game of Saturn opens a new and darker vista on the pagan Renaissance. No student of that current should ignore it” Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXI, No. 2 Niketas Siniossoglou. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens “The Game of Saturn by Peter Mark Adams is a fascinating read. The author calls it “a literary detective story”, but this may well be an understatement ... Adams decodes astral, alchemical, and sexual associations that are plausible, and shows how they may have been redeployed into visual format ... The Game of Saturn is a stimulating read, and it is difficult to put it down. It will appeal to all scholars of Renaissance intellectual history, esotericism, and Plethon. Published by Scarlet Imprint, the book is a rare example of fine printmaking, featuring beautiful reproductions of the Sola-Busca deck.” Aries - Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 18 (2018) 287–304. The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites. For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards reveal a dark Gnostic grimoire replete with pagan theurgical and astral magical rites. Careful analysis demonstrates that the presiding deity of this ‘cult object’ is none other than the Gnostic demiurge in its most archaic and violent form: the Afro-Levantine serpent-dragon, Ba’al Hammon, also known as Kronos and Saturn, though more notoriously as the biblical Moloch, the devourer of children. Conveyed from Constantinople to Italy in the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, the pagan Platonist George Gemistos Plethon sought to ensure the survival of the living essence of Neoplatonic theurgy by transplanting it to the elite families of the Italian Renaissance. Within that violent and sorcerous milieu, Plethon’s vision of a theurgically enlightened elite mutated into its dark shadow – a Saturnian brotherhood, operating within a cosmology of predation, which sought to channel the draconian current to preserve elite wealth, power and control. This development marks the birth of an ‘illumined elite’ over three centuries before Adam Weishaupt’s ‘Illuminati.’ The deck captures the essence of this magical tradition and constitutes a Western terma whose talismanic properties may serve to establish an initiatory link with the current. This work fully explores the historical context for the deck’s creation against the background of tense Ferrarese-Venetian diplomatic intrigue and espionage. The recovery of the deck’s encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism.
