Londa Tarot

Creator(s): Londa Marks
Date: 1993
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games
Number of Cards: 78+1
ISBN: 0-88079-664-2
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV pp. 401,404




  


Notes:
All cards were oil painted by the artist.U.S. Games  owns the 80 paintings for this tarot deck and they are in their collection of art. The artist once designed costumes and make-up for rock groups.

The depicted people are slender, androgynous and have angular faces. The scenes on each card are a stage with characters presented in a theatrical manner, they all have a title at the bottom and the Majors have a number at the top. Each card is signed "Londa". 

The Minor Arcana images are sometimes based on Waite. The suits are sort of color coded: The people on Wands wear brown clothes and the Wands themselves are brown too, the Cups all have violet/red in the backgrounds, the Cups themselves are golden, the people on Pentacles have green clothes and the Pentacles themselves are golden, the Swords are all blue (the people wear mixed colors) .

There is a title card and an extra card that shows a masked person with the question, "Who are you really?".

The backs show a circled cross in gold on black and are reversible. The lwb that comes with the deck is written by the artist herself, has some information about the artist and an introduction to the deck, it also contains two of Londa Marks' poems.

Le Tarot du Chat

Creator(s): Carole Sedillot, Claude Trapet
Date: 1993
Country: France
Publisher: Jacques Grancher
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 2-733-90415-9 
Type: Marseilles
Reference: aeclectic 

 





Notes: 
The Major Arcana and Court Cards have cats that are anthromorphised while the Pips are regular cats. Baton (Wands ) show scenes of a Siamese type cat with flaming torches. Denier ( Coins) are depicted with scenes of a gray and brown Tabby Cat and the coins are actually flowers. Coupes (Cups) show a white Persian type of cat near a pool of water . L’ Epee (Swords) depict a gray cat with swords and the “blade” is a gray cat paw with the claws .

The general style is more Marseille than Waite-Smith. The art is pen drawings with coloured pencil. The backs are solid purple. The cards are shrinkwrapped (no box) and came with a softcover instruction book (text in French only).

There was an earlier Majors only edition published by Editions Jean Boully in 1989. 

Baphomet - Tarot of the Underworld

Creator(s): H.R. Giger, Akron
Date: 1993 / 2010
Country: Switzerland
Publisher: AGM / Akron Edition
Number of Cards: 22  + 1
ISBN: 978-3-905372-29-8
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 235, 237

Notes:
The Baphomet Tarot is a collaboration between the Swiss artist H.R. Giger  and the occultist Akron (C.F. Frey). Giger painted the images between 1973 and 1992 (not as tarot cards) and Akron chooses from Giger's paintings those, which fits for the tarot cards. Akron also wrote the book  that came with the cards.

The first edition was 1993 by AGM, since 1999 the deck was published by Akron Edition and there was an edition published by Taschen America in 2000. Mine was from Akron Edition in 2010.

The first edition had 22 cards the later editions have an extra card "The Virus". Backs are not reversible.

Golden Dragon Tarot

Creator(s): Jean-Louis Victor, Marie Delclos 
Date: 1993
Country: Switzerland 
Publisher: AGM 
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 3-908646-39-1
Type: other
Reference: Aeclectic








Notes:
The deck is called "Tarot Chinois" in the French version and "Tarot und Chinesische Weisheit" in the German version, but it is not the same deck as the U.S. Games "Chinese Tarot".

I would recommend the set with the full length companion book, because without the book it is hard to understand the meanings of the cards and the intended relation between the chinese philosophy and the tarot.

The top border has the card number and what appears to be the name of the card in Chinese for the Major Arcana, and the suit name (without a number) in Chinese for the Minor Arcana. The bottom border has the card name in German.

Most of the Major Arcana have been renamed:

I - Der Lehrling (The Apprentice)	VIIII - Der Weise (The Master of Wisdom)	XVII - Der Stern (The Star)
II - Die Wasserträgerin (The Waterporter)	X - Das Schicksal (Destiny)	XVIII - Der Mond (The Moon)
III - Die Reiskönigin (The Queen of Rice)	XI - Der Drachen (The Dragon)	XVIIII - Die Sonne (The Sun)
IV - Der Herrscher (The Emperor)	XII - Der Gehängte (The Hanged Man)	XX - Das Tao (The Tao)
V - Die heilige Pagode (The Illuminated Pagoda)	XIII - Der Tod (Death)	XXI - Der Affe (The Monkey)
VI - Das Labyrinth (The Labyrinth)	XIV - Der Ausgleich (Balance)	XXII - Die Ernte (Harvest)
VII - Der Sieg (Victory)	XV - Das Gewitter (The Thunderstorm)
VIII - Die Gerechtigkeit (Justice)	XVI - Zerstörung des Tempels (Destruction of the Tempel)

Symbolon

Creator(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller
Date: 1993, reprint 2011
Country: Switzerland
Publisher: AGM
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-3-905017-17-5
Type: non-tarot
Reference: Aeclectic





Notes:
The Symbolon is not a Tarot deck. There are a number of cards that bear a resemblance to particular cards of the Tarot. But even though there are 78 cards in the Symbolon deck, it's still not a deck of Tarot cards.

There are no major and minor arcana cards; there are no court cards, nor are there the traditional pip cards you see in Tarot that are numbered from Ace to Ten. In fact, these cards have no numbering, titles, or labels on them at all.

The cards feature spiritual and mythological characters intermixed with characters that seem to be from various periods in history (Renaissance, Victorian era, etc.). Astrological associations are featured as symbols on each card. In the LWB it is considered a "game of remembrance", the purpose of the deck is to recreate memories from past lives

Morgan-Greer Tarot (Spanish)

Creator(s): Bill Greer, Lloyd Morgan
Date: 1979,  1993
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 0-88079-695-2
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 595, 608






Notes:
Originally published by Morgan Press in 1979, the deck was later published by U.S. Games Systems. There is a separate card with the deck that states that it was illustrated by Bill Greer, under the direction of Lloyd Morgan. The symbolism used is a combination of the systems developed by Arthur Edward Waite and Paul Foster Case.

Rather than paint full scenes as did Smith, Greer chooses to paint from a closer perspective. Many of the people shown in the cards are androgynous, the Pages can represent a girl or boy equally well.

This is the Spanish Edition 1993. The titles on the cards and the LWB are Spanish only. It came with two extra cards, the above mentioned titlecard and a card with biographical information on Bill Greer. The card backs are light blue with white stars and - other than the first edition - all cards have identical backs.

Tarot Hindou de Madame Indira

Creator(s): Colette Silvestre-Haeberle, Madame Indira
Date: 1993
Country: France
Publisher: Grimaud
Number of Cards: 30
ISBN:
Type: non-tarot
Reference: Le Palais du Tarot








Notes:

The Tarot Hindou consist of 30 cards with no tatot-like structure. It claims to be derived from ancient knowledge epistomized by the Mahabbarata.

The LWB advises three ways to draw the cards: The "Sacred Nine", the "Six Incarnations" and the "Magical Circles". Despite being named "Tarot" it has nothing to do with tarot at all.