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The Celtic Cross spread using the Universal Waite deck, a recolored variation of the original Rider–Waite deck. The Rider–Waite–Smith deck, [k] released in 1909, was the first complete cartomantic tarot deck other than those derived from Etteilla's Egyptian tarot. [69] (Oswald Wirth's 1889 deck had only depicted the major arcana. [48])
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is a divinatory tarot guide, with text by A. E. Waite and illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith.Published in conjunction with the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, the pictorial version (released 1910, dated 1911) [1] followed the success of the deck and Waite's (unillustrated 1909) text The Key to the Tarot. [2]
A Celtic cross symbol. The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages.A type of ringed cross, it became widespread through its use in the stone high crosses erected across the islands, especially in regions evangelised by Irish missionaries, from the ninth through the 12th centuries.
He has appeared on the History Channel and Discovery Channel programs on Arthur and the Holy Grail, and shared a BAFTA award for his work on the educational DVD made to accompany "King Arthur". [15] He has acted as a guest editor and member of the editorial board for the international journal Arthuriana .
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In his 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, the designer of the Rider–Waite tarot deck, wrote of the symbol: The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure—from the position of the legs—forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that ...