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The Origins of Tarot Cards

22 points by mr_golyadkin 12y ago

prawn 12y ago
Very interesting, but especially so for me since through my Italian/Slovenian mother we were introduced to Briscola, a trick-taking card game which uses cards derived from these. The second image in the article is very reminiscent of those we still play with today. Briscola is easy to play with a standard Western deck, just removing 8, 9 and 10 of each suit, though it loses some of the charm IMO. Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscola Pictures of the cards here: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=briscola&safe=off&es_sm=119&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com.au/search?q=briscola&safe=off&es_sm=1...
templeos2 12y ago
I do tongues. Tongues is where you get the Holy Spirit to say words. I pick from real words, not gibberish, works better. Let's be clear, with tongues you want a spirit to talk. Don't kid yourself -- whatever technique (Ouija) is the same thing. Ouija is crappy just because it requires too much probability violation. Tongues is you want a spirit to speak by controlling you. "Do not prepare your words for defence, for the holy spirit will give them at the moment you need them." ---- The secret is you must do an offering. If you give God love (do praise and hymns), He gives love back. You get out what you put in. I don't get prophecy, just conversation. It's ugly to only be a user and try to use God instead of love Him. ----- http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14&version=NIV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...
devindotcom 12y ago
Interesting article for sure. Personally I get a lot of value out of Tarot because I love the flexibility of the concepts. Things like the hanged man, death, the falling tower, the hierophant - they all take on multiple meanings depending on the context. Not as a fortune-telling mechanism, of course, just as concepts, archetypes. You start recognizing empresses and pages of pentacles wherever you go because the ideas go so far back - long before Tarot was invented. Reading up on the fascinating ways of interpreting cards in light of other cards or information is a great way to spend an hour or two.
minopret 12y ago
So that sort of explains the new Unicode 7.0 characters "fool" and "trump-1" through "trump-21" as well as the existing "knight" playing-card characters. Wikipedia helps too. 'A Tarot deck corresponds in every particular with those called Tarocchi by writers of the 16th century. It consists of 56 numeral cards of four suits and 22 emblematic cards called atouts (trumps). Each suit consists of fourteen cards: ten "number" or "pip" cards, and four "court" cards, the Roi (King), Dame, (Queen), Chevalier (Knight), and Valet (Jack). Of the atouts, 21 are numbered from 1 to 21, and a non-numbered card called "Fou" ("Fool", also called "Mat" or "L'Excuse" in play) has various meanings depending on the particular Tarot variant being played...' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot,_tarock_and_tarocchi_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot,_tarock_and_tarocchi_gam...

22 points by mr_golyadkin 12y ago

prawn 12y ago

Very interesting, but especially so for me since through my Italian/Slovenian mother we were introduced to Briscola, a trick-taking card game which uses cards derived from these. The second image in the article is very reminiscent of those we still play with today. Briscola is easy to play with a standard Western deck, just removing 8, 9 and 10 of each suit, though it loses some of the charm IMO. Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscola Pictures of the cards here: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=briscola&safe=off&es_sm=119&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com.au/search?q=briscola&safe=off&es_sm=1...

templeos2 12y ago

I do tongues. Tongues is where you get the Holy Spirit to say words. I pick from real words, not gibberish, works better. Let's be clear, with tongues you want a spirit to talk. Don't kid yourself -- whatever technique (Ouija) is the same thing. Ouija is crappy just because it requires too much probability violation. Tongues is you want a spirit to speak by controlling you. "Do not prepare your words for defence, for the holy spirit will give them at the moment you need them." ---- The secret is you must do an offering. If you give God love (do praise and hymns), He gives love back. You get out what you put in. I don't get prophecy, just conversation. It's ugly to only be a user and try to use God instead of love Him. ----- http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14&version=NIV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

devindotcom 12y ago

Interesting article for sure. Personally I get a lot of value out of Tarot because I love the flexibility of the concepts. Things like the hanged man, death, the falling tower, the hierophant - they all take on multiple meanings depending on the context. Not as a fortune-telling mechanism, of course, just as concepts, archetypes. You start recognizing empresses and pages of pentacles wherever you go because the ideas go so far back - long before Tarot was invented. Reading up on the fascinating ways of interpreting cards in light of other cards or information is a great way to spend an hour or two.

minopret 12y ago

So that sort of explains the new Unicode 7.0 characters "fool" and "trump-1" through "trump-21" as well as the existing "knight" playing-card characters. Wikipedia helps too. 'A Tarot deck corresponds in every particular with those called Tarocchi by writers of the 16th century. It consists of 56 numeral cards of four suits and 22 emblematic cards called atouts (trumps). Each suit consists of fourteen cards: ten "number" or "pip" cards, and four "court" cards, the Roi (King), Dame, (Queen), Chevalier (Knight), and Valet (Jack). Of the atouts, 21 are numbered from 1 to 21, and a non-numbered card called "Fou" ("Fool", also called "Mat" or "L'Excuse" in play) has various meanings depending on the particular Tarot variant being played...' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot,_tarock_and_tarocchi_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot,_tarock_and_tarocchi_gam...