Mythic Tarot

Creator(s): Juliet Sharman-Burke, Liz Greene, Tricia Newell
Date: 1986
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Eddison-Sadd Edition
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:  
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 609, 612, 613




Notes: 
The Major Arcana depict Greek gods or demi-gods and keep the traditional names but are unnumbered.The suits carry the traditional designations of wands, cups, swords and pentacles. Each suit is based on a Greek myth and the cards from the suit tell the story as they progress from Ace through ten.

Cups tell the story of Psyche and Eros, Wands tell of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Swords tell the story of Orestes and The Curse of the House of Atreus and Pentacles tell of Daedalus. While each suit is tied to a story, we still find scenes that are similar to those in the Waite-Smith deck.

The deck seems to be published by many different publishers in 1986, there is an edition by Fireside mentioned on aeclectic, one by  Simon and Shuster (USA) mentioned by Kaplan, one by Century Hutchinson (UK) and mine by Eddison-Sadd. They all have slightly different backs, some black with gold embleme as mine, some purple or blue. Mine came with a hardcover book, some others came with a softcover book
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I Tarocchi del Re Sole

Creator(s): Paolo Piffarerio
Date: 1986
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:  
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.IV, p. 475, 480

 Notes:
The title translates as Tarot of the Sun King. The szenes are based on Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketiers, which was set in the reign of France's "Sun King", Luis XIV.

The pip cards are illustrated and the four suits are represented by the four musketeers.The suit of swords is associated with D'Artagnan, batons with Portos, cups with Aramis, and coins with Athos.

The deck was issued by Lo Scarabeo Azzurro in a limited edition of 936 decks, comprising two versions: the first 530 decks have faces printed in black and the backs printed in blue; the remaining 406 decks have faces and backs printed in brown. Mine is number 889 and printed in brown. The Titles are Italian.

The deck included a title card and a presentation card and a leaflet in Italian.

Arcus Arcanum Tarot

Creator(s): Hansrudi Wäscher, Günter Hager
Date: 1986
Country: Switzerland
Publisher: AGM
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:  
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 564, 569  

Notes:
For the Arcus Arcanum Tarot, esotericist Hager enlisted renowned comic book artist Hansrudi Wascher to create a friendly, bright Waite-Smith derivative which consciously removes all occult symbol from the images, favoring story elements to convey meaning. Its comic book artwork is reminiscent of the Prince Valiant series.

There are Northern mythology references on various cards and the cards have a more masculine appeal than usual tarot decks.

Card Titles and LWB is German only.

Tarot Azteque

Creator(s): Jane Denant, G. Martin
Date: 1986
Country: Austria
Publisher: Piatnik
Number of Cards: 53
ISBN: 
Type: non-tarot
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 85,89

Notes:
This deck is not a tarot. It has 52 numbered cards and one unnumbered card and a card that has on it the signature of the attache of Montezuma. The cards were inspired by Azteque religion and manuscripts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

There are four series of numbered cards. The first eight cards, bordered in blue and brown, are for the eight social classes. Cards 9 through 14 and the unnumbered card, are bordered in yellow and brown and indicate the planetary goddesses of the Azteque. The cards 15 through 34, bordered in green and brown, depict the 20 figures found in Mexico on a carved stone which is called "The Azteque Calendar". The last  eighteen cards are bordered in ocher and brown correspond to eighteen periods of the year.

The balls at the bottom of the cards count up to thirteen, which is the number of days in the lunar cycle, and then start over at one.

Tarot des Centuries

Creator(s): Jean-Pierre Payen, Dominique Webb
Date: 1760*, 1986 
Country: France
Publisher: Héron
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 
Type: Marseilles
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 572, 576

Notes:
The Tarot des Centuries is also known as the Nostradamus Tarot. It is partly copied from the Tarot made by Jean-Pierre Payen around 1760 and partly redrawn from a seventheenth-century manuscript found in France. Dominique Webb claimed that the manuscript, on which tarot-cards were drawn, was inspired  by Nostradamus.

The cards are partly "renamed" according to Nostradamus work. E.g. the Magician became "Branchus" a prophet in Asia Minor, because Nostradamus described the  rite of Branchus, performed with a tripod, such as pictured usually  in the Magician. On the two of coins and the  two of cups "N.D." for Nostradamus is replacing the name of the original maker, Payen.

Nostradamus (1503-1566) has written a book of prophecy known as the Centuries. Although tarot cards were known in France during Nostradamus's lifetime, there is no reference to them in his works.

Numerological Tarot

Creator(s): Richard Bennett de Lavigerie
Date: 1986
Country: France
Publisher: Grimaud
Number of Cards: 88
ISBN:
Type: Marseilles
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 609, 617





Notes:
The deck based on the numerology of Georges Muchery. If the Major Arcana number is even it is enclosed in a feminine shope, if it is odd in a masculine shape. The number on the left of the image is the kabbalistic number and the letter on the right corrsponds to the number of the card. At the bottom is a number calculated from the Tetraktys of Pythagoras.

In addition to the 78 tarot cards with images from the Tarot of Marseilles there are ten numbered "question cards".