Slavic Legends Tarot • Unboxing & Walkthrough with Commentary
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2022
- This vid was intended for my Patrons but friends convinced me to share publicly, so there you go :) I preordered the deck with my own money back in June. Everything I share are my honest thoughts and first impressions. I know I missed a lot with my commentary upon my first contact with the deck and didn't immediately catch a few obvious connections with fairy tales in some cards, but that is to be expected when giving first impressions.
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This vid was intended for my Patrons but friends convinced me to share publicly, so there you go :) I preordered the deck with my own money back in June. Everything I share are my honest thoughts and first impressions. I know I missed a lot with my commentary upon my first contact with the deck and didn't immediately catch a few obvious connections with fairy tales in some cards, but that is to be expected when giving first impressions.
Thank you for allowing this public
Thank you for making it public!
Thank you for sharing this
Beautiful Deck ❤️
I ordered this
Thank you for making this informative video public. 🙏🏻😌
This is my favourite deck of all time! ☺️ However, I'm waiting for their book to be released before buying it. 🙄
I’m Baltic and some of the characters are familiar to me because our cultures were mixing together for hundreds of years and Empresses card looks like Žemyna (equivalent of Gaja) to me. Four of cups looks like a legend about magic pike that would grant your wishes if you let it go.
Isn't it ironic that the box looks like a book, but there is no guideBOOK xD
The artist is amazing, this artwork is stunningly beautiful!
The Lovers card is so cute! I love the Kupala reference. Leszy is fantastic too, such a perfect depiction. The Hanged Man is absolutely beautiful. They might have used the golden chain to suspend him, but the roots work too :D I could put this picture as a poster on a wall in my room!
Maybe 7 of Wands depicts Wyrwidąb? Him and his brother Waligóra were brought up by a she-bear in the woods, according to legend.
So, this deck is very lovely, but I don't think I will be getting it... It is too expensive for me right now, I don't like how they went for the more generic, globalized version of the Moon and the Devil (but especially the Moon). And what's with all those horns and antlers!! xD I mean, yeah, antlered animals are important, but our ancestors were mostly farmers... And Perun with horns???
I would buy this if they had a guidebook. I'd even be willing to purchase it separately....
There is a PDF book that they are currently working on. Also, once it is finished it looks like it will be available from their website in actual book form as well!! Oooh I can’t wait!!! I haven’t received my decks yet. But I also live in Canada!!
You may have already realized this but in the Wheel of Fortune card there is actually only 3 sets of hands, not four. On the right you see a hand near the top and another hand near the bottom. Those would belong to one, and on the left side the hands are seen in pairs! This is such a beautiful deck and it's looking like this is the deck I've waited 20 years for! I've never been so drawn to a deck as I am this one! Thanks for sharing this video.
Thanks but that is definitely not one set of hands, unless that person has their left hand on the right and vice versa - their thumbs are clearly going outwards, not inwards. As much as I'd like it to be one pair of hands, it goes against basic human anatomy 😂 Glad you enjoy the deck otherwise, it's a well-made pack of cards for sure.
Thank you a lot for your very interesting commentary about
slavic legends and myths depicted in the cards !🙏🏻
A pdf booklet will be available later... but it’s very cool to understand better their meaning right now!😊
Thank you for sharing beyond your patron group. My grandmother's family came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and I still have family in Slovakia today. It's wonderful to have found you here. New subscriber!
I wanna a book! Thx for sharing! My deck is waiting for me in Poland. x
Thank you so much for your explanations about slavic legends , this was really helpfull to understand the cards….as there is no guidebook to explain the references ! I just received my deck ; the artist is so talented…
Oh wow so cool! Your video and channel popped up randomly in the RUclips algorithm and found you! Thank you for taking the time to show these Slavic Tarot cards! 👏👏👏
I eagerly await my decks - This video was very informative - my mother's heritage was Polish - her parents came to the USA in 1916 - grandfather secreted out to avoid the conscription that was continual and unrelenting - BTW your English is impeccable. Even as a new arrival here in the USA, my mother wrote and spoke both languages, Polish and English.
Thanks for making this public! It’s a beautiful deck and I enjoyed hearing your thoughts 💜
LOVE this video!! Thank you so much for sharing your impressions and knowledge of the tales and references. ❤
Wow! This deck is stunning! Thanks for sharing it with us 🙏💚
I got my deck the black version with a he almost rose petal finish and I’m so in love. I can actually shuffle them and they slide beautifully but not slippery. This is by far the most Beautiful deck I’ve purchased in a long time an easy reader toooo. But can’t wait for the guidebook. If it’s in Color will be buying. A hard copy
Thank you so very much for making this video accessible to everyone! Such a mine of information. I will be taking notes until they actually come up with a guide. I did splurge on the limited edition deck, my most expensive deck by far and I'm not disappointed as it has the extra cards which are so much more relevant to the Slavic Lore and lovely card stock. I will definitely be researching more of the names and stories you mentioned. Thank you so much!
Thanks for your sharing. It make me more understanding on this deck.
You got me with this one! I ordered it right away! 🤭🤣🤩😍
Great review, thank you!
The card Death probably depicts the goddess of winter Morena :)
-14:07 actually there are 3 pairs of hand, so if think they depicted Rodzanice.
-17:40 I have no idea what's this spring means, but they propably depicted pan-european (Slavic too) trope of white hart.
-25:27 Maybe Mokosz? The person on card is standing between crown and roots of Tree of Life. And it's kinda possible to find connection between earth and world (like Earth)
-26:00 it's modern symbol of Raróg
-27:00 maybe it's reference to Ruthenia which was actually norse-slavic mixed society (varegian upper classes, and Slavic lower classes)
-33:25 just typical fantasy armour, maybe inspired by Ruthenian lamerall and mirror armours
-33:52 modern Łada (Łado?) symbol on staff
-39:35 modern symbol of controversial God Kupała on cup
-47:49 maybe legend about golden duck from Warsaw
-51:00 maybe Lada? She is often depicted with swan in modern art.
If there's three pairs of hands, that means that somebody has two left hands, but okay 🤣
Thanks for sharing about the meaning of some of the modern symbols, I don't recognise them.
@@polishfolkwitch Now it looks even more curiously, but the upper right hand is definitely the left, and the lower right hand is the right.
Ps. I messed up a little with time tags in original comment, so i edited it
Hello! :-) Thank you very much for the walkthrough of the deck - I learned so many things from you about these cards. I really love the deck and am thinking of purchasing it. I just wanted to share a few insights about the cards you reviewed. In 5 wands with a dragon, I recalled the Zmei Gorynich who is usually three-headed and depicts the evil force to be conquered. Also, in 4 cups I saw a Russian tale about Ivan the Fool, who caught a pike that suggested granting Ivan three wishes if he let it back into the water. Maybe, the fourth cup that is being granted in the card depicts the good that is not noticed or ignored, since Ivan the Fool did not have an entrepreneurial spirit to use his chances well.
Wow!! Your knowledge and insight into the myths and legends behind these illustrations really brought this deck alive for me. Such a shame this deck does not come with an extensive guidebook?! 🤨It might stop me from getting this deck... although your walkthrough really helps putting the illustrations in the right perspective! Thank you so much for sharing this!! 🙌
I wonder why the artistic antler choice, it seems like such a strange one but otherwise the artwork is visually stunning. I voted for both the cards that didn't make it into this one lol so I waited in the end for your thoughts. I'll be keen to hear how you get on with it. It's more rws than I anticipated but still seems to weave a lot into it, I loved hearing all the ties to folklore and culture from you, it was a real treat.
Przepiękne karty,które dopiero wczoraj odkryłam i stąd trafiłam na ten kanał.😉
Serdecznie pozdrawiam.🌺🍀🌺
Są świetne! Pozdrowionka 🥰❤️
Thank you for this video! Once they have a book I’m going to get it 🎉
I think part of the problem as to why certain cards were chosen over the others is you had non-Slavs voting on the cards. And traditionally the Moon is symbolized as The Mother in astrology and in many cultures because the Woman’s menstrual cycle follows that of the Moon. At least this is my guess?? I didn’t know any Slavic legends when voting on the cards.
So beautiful, I am waiting for my deck to arrive in next we days. This video is so cool as there is no guide book. Your knowledge is brilliant. I am from Czech living in UK and instantly connected with this deck. If you do any pdf guide connecting legends to card I will definitely buy one, I will check your patreon great video
I think the five of wands depiction is Zmei or as we also call it in Bulgaria - Lamia, the dragon with many heads. I loved the legends with the dragons as a child. Its a wonderful deck, its a pity it doesnt have a booklet with it.
Hey, the Justice card is the goddess Vesna and Judgement is Lela, just my thoughts.
Thank you ♒💜✌️😎
Damn I really like this deck. I do hope they come out with some sort of a guidebook or at least a little write up about who’s depicted on the cards 😅 Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, that'd be nice 😅
Thank you so much! Great review. I want to have this beautiful deck. For now, I have to order it directly from Taroteca, and probably the shipping costs from Poland to Romania are consistent, so it would be a pity not to have a Guidebook, all the legends and stories here make for half of this deck's charm.
We call the flowers on the death card Snowdrops
The pdf guide is available on their site. It is majors only but they said they will release one for the minors in the future.
I was nervous to watch the walkthrough because I really wanted this deck but decided not to buy it because of the Moon card. I’m not go to spend three times the amount of the standard deck when even the standard deck is overpriced in my opinion. Plus once the “collector” sets are gone that awesome Moon card will be gone forever and the opportunity of the real Slavic Moon Legend. Anyway, most of the images in the deck are really cool, but I’m still go to stick to my principles of why I’m not go to buy this deck.
7 of Wands: what would you say about Wyrwidąb - he was raised by a bear, while his brother Waligóra was raised by a she-wolf. As for the 9 of cups it's simply złota rybka (legend of the gold fish) that grants wishes. 9 of cups is traditionally known as the 'wish card'. And your are absolutely right - 4 of Coins is from the legend about a golden duck (legenda o złotej kaczce).
Yes indeed, I've figured these out by now & 100% agreed 🤠
Wow thanks a lot for sharing! Mine is on the way, it’s my third deck from them and I always picked the matte and cannot complain 😅. I love how much you know about the folklore so even if the pdf is never a thing, i would love more detailed guidance from you for sure. Tho i would also love the official one just to see what else is there to learn. I am Slovak and i think maybe the seven of cups could be the tale of the goldfish that if you catch it, will grant you three wishes. But not sure. With the sun card, it could be the baby is Koliada and so on, all the faces/stages of the sun… (i have a book where this was mentioned but am not home so cannot check it..) i am curious if any of these also meant to be Morena (death perhaps?) Vesna, Ziva, Radegast, but also the darker gods etc…. I was kinda expecting more clear gods and goddesses depictions.. hopefully they will release the pdf after all.
But the deck is gorgeous and i cannot wait to get mine. Hopefully it will arrive on Monday. Thanks a lot again for this great walkthrough.
The other cardstock is so much better! Really, it’s a really soft rose petal finish- not too much. The cards are very easy to shuffle and also they fan out easily which you can’t do with typical rose petal decks. I really think you need to try it. I also think the colours are more vibrant on the matte deck (not the mansion deck though as that one is the more typical rose petal finish).
The hot devil is Chernobog (gis symbol is on the card), not Veles (Henged Man) ;)
Rumors are that a
Guidebook is Coming..
💛 I love it and can’t wait to receive my deck - but I‘ll be really disappointed if there won’t be a guidebook...
I can't really find that info about the pdf guidebook anymore so now I'm questioning if I dreamt it up or what 😆
@@polishfolkwitch The thing is, when people ask them about a guidebook, they always say there will be one and then there never is. It was the same with the previous decks (World of Visions and Elemental Wisdom). Someone asked them about a guidebook for the Slavic Legends and they replied that there will be one ... but as we see, there isn't one yet again. Pretty disappointing :/
@@SunTurtle Oh wow, good to know! Thank you! That's kinda shitty tbh 😔
Thanks so much for the video! Are you still considering making the reference chart?
I currently don't have the time to make a reference chart, sadly. I'd like to make videos telling stories of some of the cards but also lacking the time to do it 😅
Hors is a sun God, the moon is female as well in Slavic mythology. Hence: Devana.
Oh wow I bought the exact deck from tarotecia with the same matt gold gilding but as theirs no guidebook just pdf I've only the major pdf taroteca said we are waiting for the minor pdf but it's been over a year now quite upsetting really .
7 of Wands, I think this is Wyrwidąb
4 of Coins: Legend of Golden Duck
There are six hands in the wheel of fortune, so i would say there are 3 "Persons" not 4 :)
Thank you so much! I am Russian and we share many of the main deities depicted, but some were clearly unique to Poland so I desperately wanted a Polish "insider" take on the depictions. I have now got the pdf which only contains the majors. I do share your bafflement at why they are all horned, could this be the symbol of either divinity or belonging to the pagan pantheons in this particular deck? Like, if one is horned, they are not a random or mortal person, they are a deity.
Is your excel sheet ready :) ?
Who is the artist who made the cards?
Thank you for sharing this! I’m waiting for my deck too. Thank you for sharing all the legends and stories. Wow it makes a big difference and adds so much. 🙏🏻🫶✌️🥰
The world is Mokoš or Živa
Wow this is kind of art. BUT i thnik its to hard to me for read this.