Book of Maps

Book of Maps: Revelation Edition

A Witchy High School Social Studies Textbook…

The companion guidebook to the deck, titled the Book of Maps, is a 700-page reference manual explaining the characters, world, and cultures depicted on the cards. The text will cover cosmology, ontology, historical religious practices, and explanations of the symbols featured. Citations to the sources I consulted will also be provided in the end notes.

Basically, it’s a witchy social studies textbook. These are the world cultures and history lessons the high school budding witch would have wanted.

The following excerpts will give you a good idea of what will be covered in the Book of Maps:

  • Key 0: The Keeper, featuring Asherah. In Ugaritic texts, The Great Lady Athirat, mother of gods
  • Key 2: The Priestess appearing as a Sumerian gala priestess of Inanna
  • Three of Chalices, featuring seiðkonur of Viking Age Scandinavia
  • Four of Chalices invoking both Kuan Yin and Serket and depicting Korean Buddhist sitting meditation
  • Nine of Scepters with Hekate-Ereshkigal in Uruk, Sumer and the Nine of Swords with Hekate-Ereshkigal as Mother (Hesiod’s Theogony, the Orphic Hymns, and the Greek Magical Papyri)
  • Archangel Commander channeled through a 14th century Templar Knight
  • Ace of Orbs and a vision of Mariam, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, and the SATOR acrostic

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Book of Maps: Vitruvian Edition

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The older Vitruvian Edition Book of Maps contains many of the chapters I omitted from the latest Revelation Edition.

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For an overview of subjects covered in the Vitruvian Book of Maps, the book description on Lulu provides the Table of Contents.

The e-book features hyperlinked bookmarks for easy navigation.

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Book of Maps: First Edition

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In 2018, the original black and white line drawings that became the First Edition Spirit Keeper’s Tarot were published in a limited print run of 1,000 copies.

The content in that First Edition Book of Maps is substantially the same as what you will find in the subsequent 2019 Vitruvian Edition.

This earlier 2018 version features the original card illustrations. Several of the cards were modified for the 2019 Vitruvian.

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The e-book version of the First Edition Book of Maps is provided as a direct download via the above hyperlink.

In case you want to see the content difference between the 2018 First and 2019 Vitruvian editions of the Book of Maps, click on the hyperlinked PDFs of the two editions to compare. The two are substantially the same, but for the revised cards between the two editions.

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