Tarot Decks: Besancon Pattern
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Although this category of decks is called "Swiss" or "Besançon" by tarot historians, the decks were produced and sold in a much larger region from the 17th century onwards during the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. Probably to avoid trouble and to have a greater market, the Popess and Pope cards were substituted with "Juno" and "Jupiter" who in the Roman pantheon were the emperor and empress of the gods. In modern times, no new decks in this format have been created. The decks that are on the market are reproductions of the historical ones.
While not a Swiss or Besançon deck, the Linweave Tarot [1], created in the 1970s and published in 1967, names the II and V trumps Jupiter and Juno, respectively.
