Maori Tattoo Tarot

Maori Tattoo Tarot

The Maori Tattoo Tarot has 78 cards themed around spirituality of the Maori people of Aotearoa, New Zealand. The illustrations set Maori symbolism and imagery into a tarot structure. Self-published and available from the artist.




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Maori Tattoo Tarot Review by Alex Monin

The Maori Tattoo Tarot deck, created by Roxana Paul and published by the Rising Sun Publishing House has two remarkable features: its theme is about an ancient civilization with clear mythological focus, and its brilliant digital performance with the big eye illustrations and vibrant colors looks quite contemporary. There is one more important side of the deck: for the first time I hold in my hand the whole Tarot deck where all cards’ pictures are tattoos on the human skin background. It is all colorful, saturated tattoos on fine and smooth skin. Plus, I found a free license to use all tattoo designs of the deck for personal purposes. Yassss, I love it.

The trumps numbering is traditional (exactly, according to Marseille Tarot, so the Fool is 0, Justice is 8, and Strength is 11), but three cards have special names: the Empress in the Maori Tattoo Tarot deck is called Ariki-Tapairu, The Hierophant – Tohunga, and the Emperor – Ariki. To add more exotic, all court cards are renamed: Apprentice instead Page, Warrior instead Knight, Chieftainess instead Queen, and Chief instead King. Suits are Swords, Wands, Discs, and Gourds instead Cups.

As a collector, buying a new deck I keep in mind three preferences. First, I’'m looking for something special, even unique in style and design of the cards (mass-produced decks are out of my interest). As for Maori Tattoo Tarot, I can'’t even. It is special indeed. Second, I'’d like decks with a real historical or cultural connection. I call it ‘inner meaning. I was provided with a free companion ebook to download, thinking it’s basic but discover a lot of information of the deck’s esoteric background there. No doubt, it’s a historically (or better say culturally) significant deck. Third, the art of the deck has to be not lower than a certain level. The Maori Tattoo Tarot cards are definitely above an average level of the modern Tarot art. The cards’ images are well-balanced, the faces and bodies of people and sea creatures are depicted on the cards with excellent details.

The decks were delivered shrink-wrapped in tuck boxes with a 50 pages black and white LWBs inside (no point to discuss LWB, for I also received the comprehensive companion ebook with a new spread and some practical things well explained). The cards are borderless, and I prefer it this way. Due to the symmetrical backside design, the cards are able to be used reversed (I think it is an important quality for practical reading). The paper is good, so the cards are beautiful to touch and easy to shuffle. The size of cards is just so that convenient to handle them. I usually buy a couple of decks, and what a pleasant surprise: the seller sent me the second deck for free as a Christmas gift.

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Complete Details of Maori Tattoo Tarot

Creators: Roxana Paul
Publisher: The Rising Sun Publishing House 2016
Deck Type: Tarot Deck
Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Card Size: 2.76 x 4.72 in. = 7.00cm x 12.00cm
Card Language: English
Card Back: Reversible
Back Design: Maori tattoo designs in purple around a central circular sunlike design.
Companion Material: PDF companion book with meanings is available for free download, or a separate complete companion book is available for purchase.

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