
Pentagrams
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
The Evolution of the Tarot
There are old roots of at least vaguely satanic stuff in tarot. There is a card that's the devil. There's a card that’s deaf. And then, and then a modern art change brings pentagrams into it because in 1909, there's a British American artist named Pamela Coleman-Smith,. She collaborates with poet Arthur Waite on a new rendering of what tarot cards could look like. This becomes the dominant tarot cards to this day.
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