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To: alt.magick,alt.tarot From: "Lu Zhen Shih" <.> Subject: Re: More Tarot News (the origin of "Tarot") Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:14:16 -0500 "Rhianna"wrote in message news:3d7bbd71.8009343@news.pipeline.com... > On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:33:44 GMT, "Asiya" > wrote: > > > When in fact, the cards we know as "Tarot" > >originated in fifteenth-century Italy as a card game, under the name "Trionfi". Antoine Court de Gebelin?: "If someone intended to announce that there still exists an ancient Egyptian Work, one of their Books which escaped the flames which engulfed their extraordinary Libraries, & which contains their highest teachings on some fascinating objects . . . . Would you not believe that he wants to have fun, and pull the leg of his Readers?" - Antoine Court de Gébelin writing on Tarot, Monde primitif The first full deck was called "Tarocchi" that "Game of Chance", but... what of the pre-Rosetta Stone and the Library of Alexandria? Possible linguistic variants of the word Tarot: The Taro river in Northern Italy. Orat (Latin), "it speaks, argues." ___ WOW!;-) Rota (Latin), "a wheel." Taru (Hindu), "cards." Tarosh (Egyptian), "the royal way." Torah (Hebrew), "the Law." Thoth, an Egyptian god. Ator, from the Egyptian goddess Hathor. Troa (Hebrew), "gate." Tares, meaning the dot border on old cards. Tarotee, meaning a pattern on the backs. I'm on the same page as jk with the gunas on the wheel, etc.,... > Was it an instant occurrence sort of similar to spontaneous generation? No historical events contributed to the genesis of Tarot? Hermeneutical exegesis ? Invoke HRU. > > ~Cheers~ > Rhianna > http://www.pipeline.com/~rhianna >
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