They seem to serve the primary purpose of turning it into a "complete 78-card deck". The deck comes with instructions and a paper "mystical spread mat" which gives the card positions and meanings for divination with a celtic-cross type layout that only has eight positions. The eight divination cards are just numbered 1-8 and labeled to match the eight positions on the mat (on a plain white background with black text in Arial) - they really do seem like an afterthought, like the deck-makers were told at the last minute that they needed 78 cards, and the booklet doesn't reference them. I suppose it could be interesting to play with them to come up with semi-randomized layouts or something, though.
(The trumps actually have divinatory meanings printed on them, but they are specialized to work with the layout on the 'mat' and mostly don't match any of the common meanings that I know offhand.)
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Date: 2012-01-04 05:59 am (UTC)(The trumps actually have divinatory meanings printed on them, but they are specialized to work with the layout on the 'mat' and mostly don't match any of the common meanings that I know offhand.)