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The B.O.T.A. Tarot was created by Paul Foster Case, founder of B.O.T.A. and artist Jessie Burns Parke. Although the B.O.T.A. tarot is based upon, and for the most part closely resembles, Arthur Edward Waite's 1910 Rider-Waite deck,〔White, Douglass A. Thoth and the Tarot, pp. 13-14〕 Paul Foster Case changed what he said were mistakes or "blinds" in the Rider-Waite edition.〔Case, Paul Foster. The Tarot, A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages.〕〔Case, Paul Foster. Highlights of Tarot.〕〔Case, Paul Foster. The Book of Tokens, Tarot Meditations.〕 The BOTA tarot deck is presented in two forms: a standard-sized full deck containing both the Major and Minor Arcana; and a larger version containing only the Major ("trump" cards). P.F. Case often called the BOTA tarot trumps 'tarot keys'. Each of the BOTA cards has a border of a particular color, which is the color that is associated with the card in the writings of P.F. Case. Every BOTA card has a hebrew letter written on it in the lower right corner, which is the letter that is associated with the card in the writings of P.F. Case. In contrast to earlier occult tarot decks, which place the fool card last in order, and associate it with the second-to-last hebrew letter, shin (such decks order the last hebrew letter, tav, before shin), the BOTA deck places the fool card first in order, and therefore associates it with the first hebrew letter, aleph. The BOTA deck also orders shin before tav, in the correct order of hebrew letters. ==Differences with the Rider-Waite deck== All of the illustrations on the cards of the BOTA deck differ in at least some minor way from those of the Rider-Waite deck, but some cards contrast much more than others. The card that contrasts the most between the two decks is the death card. In the Rider-Waite deck, the death card depicts death as an armored knight on a horse, carrying a banner, whereas in the BOTA deck, the death card depicts death as a bare skeleton with a scythe, with a red sky in the background, being based upon the death card of the Marseille tarot deck. In the Rider-Waite deck, the sun card depicts a nude child on a horse, carrying a dull-red banner, whereas in the BOTA deck, the sun card depicts two nude children standing in a field, being based upon the sun card of the Marseille tarot deck. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「B.O.T.A. tarot deck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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