Further, regarding the far more recent Rider Waite II of swords, you can see how drastically the symbolism has changed (not that there are many other older decks besides the SB that show heavy symbolism in the pip cards). This had me thinking what could potentially have been E. A. Waite's influences...

When I was reading through some of the older threads on this forum regarding the Sola Busca deck I noticed really just how riddled it is with Greek mythology. I already had a sense of this slightly from some of the names mentioned on the cards, but not to the full extent. For example the queen of cu...