Pamela Colman Smith, Thoth, Faust and hand games

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Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Scheduling posts is a really useful WordPress feature, because by the time you read this I will be in a remote cabin in the woods and have no Internet connectivity whatsoever.

So, using the powers of technology and foresight, I have prepared a list of signals for your education and amusement.

Enjoy:

• Mary K. Greer. displays a new photo of Pamela Colman Smith, the artist behind The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, occulture’s most popular tarot deck. Photos of Smith are rare, so this is interesting news.

• In a similar vein, Erik Davis writes about “The Comic Book of Thoth” for HiLobrow, which gives an overview of this deck and a brief history of tarot divination.

• In his blog Dionysian Atavism, Jack Faust talks about the origins of his pseudonymic surname in “The Fortunes of Faust“

Ok, this one could possibly classify as noise, but it seems pretty cool…if you can sort it out:

• On Laughing Squid Scott Beale shares a new wonder: Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie, an updated version of rock-paper-scissors. Do try this at home.

That’s it for this week, kids. I hope I don’t get eaten by a bear.

As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious tag it “ahrfoundation” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!

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