Santa Fe Tarot

Creator(s): Holly Huber, Tracy LeCocq
Date: 1994
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games / Carta Mundi
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 90-75336-09-8 
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 507-509  

Notes:
The Santa Fe Tarot uses Native American symbolism derived from Navajo sand paintings. The creators of the deck are sisters. The Major Arcana, while retaining their original names, have also been given names from the Navajo mythos, and the Minor Arcana have been changed into new forms using the four major 'peoples' of the Navajo world-view. The suits are lightning (swords), rainbows (wands), water (cups) and buffalos (disks).

The minors are colored by suit, with the court cards a deep color and the ace through ten a pastel of the same color. Lightening is yellow, Rainbows are a salmon, Water is   turquoise and Buffalo is green.

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 of the Dead

Creator(s): Monica Knighton

Date: 1999

Country: USA

Publisher: No Borders Studio

Number of cards: 78

ISBN: 0-9674345-0-5

Type: RWS

Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV. pp. 45, 49

Notes:
The Day of the Dead is a major holiday in Mexico, joyfully paying respect to the ancestors. The holiday inspired Monica Knighton's Tarot of the Dead, which honors the dead and death itself.

The deck generally adheres to the imagery of the Rider-Waite-Tarot.

The number is  placed within the card at the top, and the title is placed within the card at the bottom. The background for the suits is color coded: green for Coffins (cups), yellow for Reels (coins), beige for Pistols (swords) and blue for Pens (wands). The deck has only skeletal figures except for the Death card.

The courts and the pips at first appear to be double ended, like a regular playing card. Careful inspection reveals that these cards contain two images one for the upright and one for the reversed different postures and actions for each.

The backs of the cards is black and white showing two skulls set end to end, so that it cannot be determined if the card is reversed or not.

The art is pen, ink and watercolors on Bristol board.

Prairie Tarot

Creator(s): Robin Ator
Date: 2010
Country: USA
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 79
ISBN: 978-0-9728788-3-8
Type: RWS
Reference: Aeclectic Tarot







Notes:
The Prairie Tarot draws its inspiration from aspects of the western prairie of the United States. The deck has a Rider-Waite basis and an extra card, the Jackalope, for a total of 79.

New Orleans Voodoo Tarot

Creator(s): Louis Martinie, Sallie Ann Glassman
Date: 1992 
Country: USA
Publisher: Destiny Books
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0-89281-363-6 
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 435, 440






Notes:

The deck has 78 cards plus a "Wild Card", Les Barons, which belongs to the family of Guedeh spirits. They are not spirits of the dead, but the spirit of Death itself. 0 World Egg forms the center of the Crossroads, the point from which all creation takes its measure. It is the offspring of the holy serpents Ayida Wedo and Damballah Wedo.

The suits of the Minor Arcana represent the three tradions of voodoo plus Santeria (Santeria is seperate tradition, it derives from the Yoruba, wheras voodoo belongs to the people of Dahomey). Petro, common in Haiti, corresponds to fire; Congo corresponds to water; Rada corresponds to air.

Xultun Tarot (2 nd edition)

Creator(s): Peter Balin 
Date: 1976
Country: U.S.A. 
Publisher: Arcana Publishing
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 3-85914-139-2
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, pp. 287-290







Notes:

The 22 trumps when joined together (as in the illustration) form one picture.

According to Balin there are many links between the Xultun Tarot and the books of Carlos Castaneda.

Each of the Major Arcana, exepting The Fool and The Sorcerer, is named after one day of the Mayan month.The Fool, The Sorcerer, The Priestess, The Consort, The Ruler and The Priest are taken from wooden lintels found at Temple III at Tikal.

The upper row of glyphs runnin across the bottom of the cards The Consort, The Ruler and The Priest are also taken from lintels at Temple III. The lower row of glyphs comes from Stela 26/ Tikal Museum. Additional designs are taken from Stelas 1 and 31.The Warrior and the Hanged Man are based upon a drawings found in Codex Nuttall. The Cactus is taken from a bone drawing at Tikal Museum. The Wheel contains designs taken from the Great Calender Stone of the Atztecs.