The New Orleans Voodoo tarot / concept by Louis Martinié and Sallie Ann Glassman ; text by Louis Martinié ; artwork by Sallie Ann Glassman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinié, Louis, 1948-

Contributor:

Glassman, Sallie Ann, 1954- artwork.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tarot.

Vodou--Louisiana--New Orleans--Miscellanea.

Vodou.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 79 cards (color ; 11 x 7 cm)

Distribution:

Williston, VT : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. by American International Distribution Corp.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, Vt. : Destiny, 1992.

Summary:

The product of African, West Indian, and Catholic influences, Voodoo is a polytheistic religion usually associated with magical and ecstatic rites. With a firmB foundation in the classical Tarot, the authors have drawn strong and workable parallels among the Waite and Thoth Tarots, the Voodoo tradition as it is practiced in New Orleans, and the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Glassman's distinctive and evocative images mirror the face of New Orleans Voodoo that has emerged from the Dahomey tradition of West Africa, as well as from the Creole and South American cultures.

This book and 79-card deck comprise the first Tarot to celebrate an African-American culture in both spirit and imagery.B

Explains many of the rituals of the Voodoo religion in the context of a variety of Tarot spreads and readings, adding a completely new dimension to this very ancient tradition of divination and meditation.B

Contents:

Introduction

Twenty-Two Roads & The Wild Card

Forty Spirits

Sixteen Temple Cards

The Cards in Practice.

Notes:

Text design by Virginia L. Scott and Bonnie Atwater.

Issued in case.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-271) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0892813636

9780892813636

OCLC:

25281587

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