Dodal, linked reproduction
Deux de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Two circles in one loop
A linking band survives while a maker’s inscription, a performer and a serpent change its character.
Start with the pictures
Two of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 279
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Deux de Deniers
Two large coins stand one above the other. A long red-and-pale band winds around them in an S-like arrangement, carrying the maker’s lettering.
Smith
Two of Pentacles
A moving figure holds two pentacles joined by a looping band. Two ships rise and fall on waves behind.
Harris
Two of Disks · 2
Two round forms, each with a light-and-dark central motif, sit within a figure-eight serpent. The surrounding field is blue and violet.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite records recreation and gaiety, but also agitation, obstacles and written messages. The lively picture therefore accompanies several different kinds of movement and exchange.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley names Change and describes stability maintained through movement. He identifies the paired motifs with yin and yang and the encircling serpent with a continuous figure eight.
What is being connected by the loop, and what keeps that connection in motion?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.