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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Tarocchi di Bacchus

Creator(s): Luigi+Giulia Scapini, Giordano Berti
Date: 2005
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: aeclectic






Notes:
The  Major Arcana narrate the birth of Bacchus and his adventures on earth. Each court card represents one of the top winemaking countries in the world. The Numeral Cards refer to the agricultural, business and recreational activities linked to wine.

The large-size cards came in a bright-red box with an instruction booklet in English and Italian. The illustrations are soft rather than sharp with almost a watercolor effect. 


Some cards are signed "Guilia Scapini", some signed "Luigi Scapini", some signed "Luigi Scapini Guilia Scapini", some signed "GL Scapini", and some signed "LG Scapini".

Looking at the ones with the first two signatures the differences in their artistic styles becomes apparent: Luigi has the rich colours, strong lines and  bony figures. Guilia's cards have less muscular figures, paler colours and a lot of white left in the backgrounds of some of her images. In the cards signed with both their names or both their initials the partner whose initial comes first is dominant.

Etruscan Tarot

Creator(s): Riccardo Minetti, Silvana Alasia
Date: 2002
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0738702384
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 324, 328

Minotarot

Creator(s): Eric Provoost
Date: 1982
Country: France
Publisher: Fontenay-sous-Bois
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: -
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 347, 354-356








Notes:
The Minotarot uses just three colors, black white and brown.

It is a limited edition of 2000 copies, mine is number 1027.

Tarot symbolism is combined with the myth Theseus and the Minotaur.The cards, when lined up next to one another in a sequence indicated by the number in the upper right-hand corner of each card, form one image telling the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.