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Open Theosophy

Why It Is Open The original Theosophical Society split after Blavatsky's death, chiefly into the Adyar based Theosophical Society and the Pasadena based Theosophical Society founded by William Quan Judge, and each rival body keeps and reports its own membership rolls without any shared or independently audited combined count.

What Would Settle It A single count published jointly, or independently compiled from each Society's own reported rolls with a stated methodology and date, across the Adyar, Pasadena and any other surviving Theosophical bodies.

Expertise Needed Sociology of religion

Question posed in The Theosophical Enlightenment, Joscelyn Godwin.

Open Angel Prayers Oracle Cards

Why It Is Open No illustrator is credited on the creator's own product page, the publisher's listing, or any retailer listing checked. Kyle Gray's later decks in this registry, credited to a named illustrator, make the silence here look like an omission rather than a genuinely uncredited work, but that could not be confirmed either way.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook or box, examined directly, or a publisher catalogue record naming the illustrator.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in Angel Prayers Oracle Cards (astrologyandangelmediums.com review, citing Hay House edition), Kyle Gray.

Open Angel Therapy Oracle Cards

Why It Is Open Multiple independent reviews describe this deck's artwork as compiled from several different artists rather than one credited illustrator, and no source checked, the publisher's own listing or Aeclectic Tarot's review among them, names any of the contributors for this specific title.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly, since compiled-artwork Hay House oracle decks typically credit each contributor inside the booklet even when retailer listings do not.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in Angel Therapy Oracle Cards, A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook (Amazon listing), Doreen Virtue.

Open Archangel Oracle Cards

Why It Is Open Multiple independent reviews describe this deck's artwork as compiled from several different artists rather than one credited illustrator, and Aeclectic Tarot's own review, read directly, describes the card layout without naming an artist. No source checked names a contributor for this specific title.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly, since compiled-artwork Hay House oracle decks typically credit each contributor inside the booklet even when retailer listings do not.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in Archangel Oracle Cards, A 45 Card Deck and Guidebook (Amazon listing), Doreen Virtue.

Open Ascended Masters Oracle Cards

Why It Is Open Aggregated web listings attach several painters' names to this deck, but none of the pages actually read, the publisher's own listing, Goodreads, and Aeclectic Tarot's review, states a name directly, so the claim could not be traced to a citable page and is left unresolved rather than repeated from an aggregation.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly, which is understood to list contributor credits even where retailer and review pages do not.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in Ascended Masters Oracle Cards, 44-Card Deck and Guidebook (AbeBooks listing), Doreen Virtue.

Open Flower of Life

Why It Is Open No illustrator is credited on the publisher's page or any retailer listing checked. The deck prints its interpretive text directly on the back of each card rather than in a separate guidebook, so creator Denise Jarvie may be the sole author of both image and text, but that could not be verified to certainty.

What Would Settle It The deck's own packaging or a publisher catalogue record, examined directly, stating whether the imagery is Jarvie's own work or a separate illustrator's.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in The Flower of Life, Wisdom of Astar Oracle Deck (Amazon listing), Denise Jarvie.

Open Numerology Guidance Cards

Why It Is Open No illustrator is credited on the publisher's listing or any retailer listing checked. The deck's imagery is mostly numbers, colors and named geometric symbols rather than figurative art, so a separate illustrator credit may genuinely not exist, but that could not be confirmed either way.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook or box, examined directly, or a publisher catalogue record naming a designer or illustrator if one exists.

Expertise Needed Publishing history

Question posed in Numerology Guidance Cards, A 44-Card Deck (Penguin Random House listing), Michelle Buchanan.

Open Second Crusade

Why It Is Open The Second Crusade was fought as three largely separate campaigns under one crusading call, the failed siege of Damascus in the Levant, the Wendish Crusade in the Baltic, and the successful siege of Lisbon in Iberia, and the scholarship treats each on its own terms rather than as one war with one casualty count.

What Would Settle It A historian's synthesis totaling documented losses across all three theaters, or separate, clearly bounded figures for each campaign presented together rather than as isolated episodes.

Expertise Needed Crusading history, medieval military history.

Question posed in God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman.

Open Fifth Crusade

Why It Is Open The Fifth Crusade's losses are recorded in narrative form, the long siege of Damietta and the crusader army's destruction during its retreat up the flooded Nile, but no historian has converted those narratives into a bounded casualty estimate for the campaign.

What Would Settle It A military historian's accounting of losses at Damietta and during the Nile retreat combined into one campaign total, or a demographic study of Ayyubid Egypt's war losses in the period.

Expertise Needed Crusading history, medieval military history.

Question posed in God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman.

Open Sixth Crusade

Why It Is Open The Sixth Crusade is remembered as a diplomatic success, Jerusalem recovered by treaty rather than conquest, and the scholarship reflects that emphasis: the campaign's limited fighting is described in narrative terms with no casualty figures attached, let alone a combined total.

What Would Settle It A military historian's accounting of the skirmishes and garrison actions that did occur during Frederick II's campaign, however small the resulting figure.

Expertise Needed Crusading history, medieval military history.

Question posed in God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman.

Open Seventh Crusade

Why It Is Open The Seventh Crusade's defining battle at Mansurah and the surrender of Louis IX's army afterward are described in detail by the eyewitness chronicler Jean de Joinville and by the historians who follow him, but none converts that narrative into a bounded total across combat losses, disease and the army's captivity.

What Would Settle It A military historian's combined accounting of Mansurah's battle deaths, the army's losses to disease in the Nile Delta, and deaths among those held captive afterward.

Expertise Needed Crusading history, medieval military history.

Question posed in God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman.

Open Ninth Crusade

Why It Is Open The Ninth Crusade is the smallest of the numbered Crusades in the scholarship, a short campaign by the future Edward I remembered chiefly for its limited raids rather than pitched battles, and none of those actions carries a recorded casualty figure to build a total from.

What Would Settle It A military historian's identification of casualty figures, however small, for the raids and skirmishes of Edward's 1271 to 1272 campaign.

Expertise Needed Crusading history, medieval military history.

Question posed in God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyerman.

Open Numerology Guidance Cards

Why It Is Open No review checked, including the publisher's own product page, states whether the guidebook offers a reversed meaning for its numeric and symbolic cards. Reviewers describe reversal as left up to the reader's own approach, with no official guidance found stated either way.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly for a stated position on reversed cards.

Expertise Needed Deck design and cartomancy practice

Question posed in Numerology Guidance Cards, A 44-Card Deck (Penguin Random House listing), Michelle Buchanan.

Open Sacred Geometry Activations Oracle

Why It Is Open No review checked states whether the guidebook offers a reversed meaning alongside its stated Activations. A similarly named deck by a different creator, Francene Hart's Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck, is recorded elsewhere in this registry as offering reversed meanings for non-symmetrical cards, and the two are easily confused, but they are not the same deck and this one's own practice was not found stated anywhere.

What Would Settle It The deck's own 160-page guidebook by LON, examined directly for a stated position on reversed cards.

Expertise Needed Deck design and cartomancy practice

Question posed in Sacred Geometry Activations Oracle (Blue Angel Publishing product page), LON.

Open The Crystal Wisdom Healing Oracle

Why It Is Open An independent review's own deck-data table records the card backs as reversible, but no review checked, including one that engages closely with the guidebook's own structure of Vibration groupings, states whether the guidebook itself offers a distinct reversed meaning for any card. A reversible back alone does not settle the question.

What Would Settle It The deck's own 119-page guidebook by Judy Hall, examined directly for a stated position on reversed cards.

Expertise Needed Deck design and cartomancy practice

Question posed in Deck Review: The Crystal Wisdom Healing Oracle (Tarot Elements), Tarot Elements.

Open Zodiac Reading Cards

Why It Is Open No review checked states whether the guidebook offers a reversed meaning for its sun, moon and eclipse cards, and creator Patsy Bennett's own product page for the deck, read directly, is silent on card orientation as well.

What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly for a stated position on reversed cards.

Expertise Needed Deck design and cartomancy practice

Question posed in Zodiac Reading Cards, Guidance from the Sun, Moon and Stars (Simon and Schuster official page), Patsy Bennett and Richard Crookes.

Open Chen

Why It Is Open In the Classic inscriptions this month is written as a colour term joined to a second element read as sihoom. The colour term is secure. The second element is left untranslated, so the literal sense of the month name cannot be recovered from the inscriptions, and the storm gloss that circulates for it comes from the post-conquest Yucatec name instead.

What Would Settle It A collation of every spelling of the sign group across the Classic corpus, with its substitution sets and phonetic complements, set against the Colonial-period Yucatec and Cholan dictionaries, to test whether sihoom has a surviving lexical match.

Expertise Needed Maya epigraphy, with Mayan historical linguistics.

Question posed in The Maya (9th edition), Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston.

Open Yax

Why It Is Open In the Classic inscriptions this month is written as a colour term joined to a second element read as sihoom. The colour term is secure. The second element is left untranslated, so the literal sense of the month name cannot be recovered from the inscriptions, and the storm gloss that circulates for it comes from the post-conquest Yucatec name instead.

What Would Settle It A collation of every spelling of the sign group across the Classic corpus, with its substitution sets and phonetic complements, set against the Colonial-period Yucatec and Cholan dictionaries, to test whether sihoom has a surviving lexical match.

Expertise Needed Maya epigraphy, with Mayan historical linguistics.

Question posed in The Maya (9th edition), Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston.

Open Sak

Why It Is Open In the Classic inscriptions this month is written as a colour term joined to a second element read as sihoom. The colour term is secure. The second element is left untranslated, so the literal sense of the month name cannot be recovered from the inscriptions, and the storm gloss that circulates for it comes from the post-conquest Yucatec name instead.

What Would Settle It A collation of every spelling of the sign group across the Classic corpus, with its substitution sets and phonetic complements, set against the Colonial-period Yucatec and Cholan dictionaries, to test whether sihoom has a surviving lexical match.

Expertise Needed Maya epigraphy, with Mayan historical linguistics.

Question posed in The Maya (9th edition), Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston.

Open Keh

Why It Is Open In the Classic inscriptions this month is written as a colour term joined to a second element read as sihoom. The colour term is secure. The second element is left untranslated, so the literal sense of the month name cannot be recovered from the inscriptions, and the storm gloss that circulates for it comes from the post-conquest Yucatec name instead.

What Would Settle It A collation of every spelling of the sign group across the Classic corpus, with its substitution sets and phonetic complements, set against the Colonial-period Yucatec and Cholan dictionaries, to test whether sihoom has a surviving lexical match.

Expertise Needed Maya epigraphy, with Mayan historical linguistics.

Question posed in The Maya (9th edition), Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston.