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.

PetraK Tarot

Creator(s): Petra Reiter
Date: 2010
Country: Austria
Publisher: Piatnik
Number of cards: 79
ISBN: 9-001890-194719
Type: Thoth
Reference: PetraK




Notes:
The artist claimes to have dismantled every single card according to the numeric system of kabbalah and taken into account the signification of the runes, angel cards, power animals and their respective colour symbolism.

Lending heavily from the Abstract art movement (particularly the style of Salvador Dali) this results in 80 works of art, painted in oil on canvas.

Some of the Major Arcana being renamed. The deck has two Magician cards - The light Magician and The dark Magician. Card titles in German, English and French. The suits are Cups (Water), Wands (Fire), Discs (Earth) and Swords (Air). There comes no booklet with the cards instead explanations can be found on the artists website.

Jugenstil Tarock

Creator(s): Ditha Moser 
Date: 1906*, 1982
Country: Austria
Publisher: Glanz, Piatnik
Number of Cards: 54
ISBN: 3-900-300-07-0
Type: non-tarot, tarock
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, p. 317










Notes:
The original edition of these cards appeared in 1906. The designs were by Ditha Moser, Albert Berger was the printer and Josef Glanz was responsible for the production of the cards. It is unclear how many copies were printed: some sources give the number as 300, others as only 100. Around 1910 Piatnik took over the company of Josef Glanz together with its remainder stocks of playing cards. In 1970 when a catalogue was made of Piatniks archives they duscovered unsold copies, which prompted the present editor to reprint the Jugendstil Tarock and issue them 1972 in limited edition.

 A second limited edition was published in 1982.
The number of copies each edition is undocumented. Mine is number 2850 of the 1982 edition. Many of the cards show Ditha Moser's childhood impressions, for instance wooden toy figures from the Erzgebirge. Combined with these are traditional tarock motifs.

The court cards of Hearts are dressed in the fashion of the age of Luis XVI, the Diamond Court cards are clad in ancient Egyptian style, the Spades court cards are wearing clothes which belong to the Edda sagas and all the Club court cards appear as crusading knights.

Egorov Tarot

Creator(s): Alexander Egorov
Date: 1992
Country: Austria
Publisher: Piatnik
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 315,316