Selasa, 01 Mei 2012

The history of the tarot reading

By Coolin Mark


Handmade cards found its way to Europe via the Islamic world within the mid 14th century. These early cards, referred to as the Malmuk cards, had a similar structure as our regular playing cards today: four regular suits, each with 10 pip cards and three court cards. The main suit signs were cups, coins, swords, and polo sticks. Polo wasn't played in Europe back then plus they became batons. These suits have become called the Latin suits and many types of Europe used them - though automobile only used by Latin countries. A legal court cards were a King, a Rider, and a Footman. All male court cards are nevertheless employed in Latin suits, plus the German and Swiss packs.

The Queen makes her first appearance inside a Milanese pack that includes six courts in each suit, a male and a female of every rank. Two of the extra courts were dropped and for a time the 56 card pack was standard in the region. It had been to this pack that the extra suit of picture cards was included the mid 15th century. These extra cards took as their theme a traditional Christian triumph procession, so they were called trionfi, meaning triumphs, and from which we get our word trump - it turned out the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in cards! The sport later took the name Tarocchi, probably in the old Italian vernacular Tarocus, meaning to play the fool. This name became Tarock far away with only France dropping the guttural at the end to make Tarot.

Tarot doesn't have any occult origin and despite popular myth, the church never took offence in the cards since they were recognised as Christian. Looked over with modern eyes a few of the old designs look mysterious, even heretical - but examined in context of once they were made we have a different picture. As an example, the Female Pope raises a lot of questions and yet within the 15th century she was obviously a common figure in Christian art, symbolising such things as the brand new Covenant as well as the virtue of Faith. The Hanged Man even offers received attention, suspended by one foot! Yet it Italy, this card was known as the Traitor - which is the way they killed traitors, hung by one foot and left to die slowly and publicly. No mystery whatsoever!

However, as the cards spread with other regions, beginners and card makers were not really acquainted with a few of the images and, inside a climate of religious caution, altered a few of the cards. The Belgian pattern replaces the Pope and feminine Pope with Bacchus as well as the Spanish Captain. The Besancon pattern replaced the same cards with Jupiter and Juno (that is still perfectly located at the Swiss 1JJ). In Bologna, because of politics instead of religion, The Female Pope, the Emperor, Empress, and also the Pope were all replaced with the Four Moors, four trumps which can be treated as having equal rank.

Other significant packs include the Florentine Minchiate, this tarot comes with a extra block of trumps to generate 97 cards in every. Another is the Tarocco Siciliano, a pack of 63 cards, almost as small as a patience pack, with some unique trumps in addition to some borrowed through the Minchiate.

In the early eighteenth century, German playing card makers began to produce French suited packs with new trumps featuring an array of original trump designs. The French suits were much cheaper to produce, requiring only stencils as an alternative to carved wood blocks and also the new trumps allowed card makers to show off their skills these days of great competition. These credit cards are employed for the majority of the games, with France being the final to adopt them during the early twentieth century.

Toward no more the 18th century, occultist and resident of Paris, Antoine Court de Gabelin wrote articles on tarot cards for his Encyclopaedia, The Primitive World. He revealed that they were the codified wisdom of ancient Egyptian priests, essentially a few hieroglyphs which were much in fashion at the time. He offered no evidence for his theory however it became a popular myth. For about century, the occult tarot and divination with all the cards only agreed to be known in France, it was not until individuals the Golden Dawn, who based much of their occult beliefs on the cards, started to import them, publish translations with the French texts, and redesign them specifically for occult practice, that the myth reached the English speaking world.

Today, English speakers continue to understand the cards for occult myths and, naturally, the fortune telling. However, Europe continues to play an amazing variety of games with them. France, Austria, and Hungary maintain particularly strong tarot game tradition along with Bologna in Italy.

The leading countries where tarot is played today are: Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Germany, France, and Denmark.

The games are largely might know about call point-trick games. That means that like whist, bridge, and spades, players win cards in tricks. Unlike those games, different cards carry different point values, that it is not the volume of tricks you adopt that wins the overall game but the volume of card points shipped to you included.

Some games, including Ottocento and Minchiate, also score points for card combinations and sequences won in tricks, adding an additional dimension to experience. Others rely much more on winning announced bonuses for scoring most of the points, by far the most interesting more likely to be Royal Tarokk that eliminates the card points altogether.




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