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Tarot-Oxford English Dictionary
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Tarot in Europe 1377-1790
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22 Select Egyptian Phonemes as the basis for the Images of the Major Arcana of the Tarot
We ponder is the Major Arcana of the Tarot is found in the Egyptian language.
Correspondence between the Tarot and the 22 scenes from "The Magic Flute"
Correspondences between the Major Arcana and The Magic Flute
Rectified Numbering of the Major Arcana
We offer an alternative numbering scheme for the Major Arcana.
The Correct Attributes of the Major Arcana
The one to one correspondence between the Major Arcana, Egyptian unilaterals, and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The Correct Correspondence between the Major Arcana and Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Our final efforts reveal the correct correspondence for the Major Arcana and 22 Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A.E. Waite
Analyzing the Tarot from an Egyptian perspective demonstrating the nature of the images represent on the Trump cards of the Waite Tarot.
We ponder is the Major Arcana of the Tarot is found in the Egyptian language.
Correspondence between the Tarot and the 22 scenes from "The Magic Flute"
Correspondences between the Major Arcana and The Magic Flute
Rectified Numbering of the Major Arcana
We offer an alternative numbering scheme for the Major Arcana.
The Correct Attributes of the Major Arcana
The one to one correspondence between the Major Arcana, Egyptian unilaterals, and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The Correct Correspondence between the Major Arcana and Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Our final efforts reveal the correct correspondence for the Major Arcana and 22 Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A.E. Waite
Analyzing the Tarot from an Egyptian perspective demonstrating the nature of the images represent on the Trump cards of the Waite Tarot.
Courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary:
Etymology:
< French tarot (also 16th cent. tarault , tarau ), < Italian *tarocco (plural tarocchi ): see taroc n.
a. One of a set of playing-cards, first used in Italy in the 14th c. (Also used in fortune-telling.) Also attrib.
b. pl. The game played with these.The tarots, strictly speaking, are a series of 22 figured cards (21 of which are numbered), all being trumps, which are added to a set of 56 (in four suits), forming a pack of 78.
1592 G. Delamothe French Alphabeth 150
Will you play at Tables, at Dyce, at Tarots, at Chesses?
1872 W. Skeen Early Typogr. 55
A single pack of ‘tarots’, admirably painted about 1415 by Marziano,..cost the enormous sum of 1500 golden crowns (about £625).
1888 Chambers's Encycl. II. 763/1
No Spanish tarots are known to exist.
1899 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 611
Piot..was..the first to collect ‘Tarots’, those valuable playing cards, which now fetch such a high price.
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 2 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl.,
As fall the Tarot cards, so fell Each rose~page of the Oracle.
1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay vii. 319
An old woman crazed by gambling and tarot cards.
1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 180
Justine..would sit cross-legged on the bed and begin to lay out the little pack of Tarot cards.
1972 Time 19 June 26/2
The Center also presents tarot-card readings.
1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 3
Some Milan card makers reached a high degree of technical and artistic quality, including specialisation in a particular type of Tarot pack, usually with a narrow format.
Forms: Also 16–18 tarok, tarock.
Etymology:
< Italian *tarocco, in plural tarocchi , of unknown origin. Also German tarock , French tarot : see tarot n.
a. = tarot n. a.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words
Tarocchi, a kind of playing cardes called Tarocks or Terestriall triumphs.
b. (also in pl.) = tarot n. b.
1739 T. Gray Let. 16 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 128
Play at Ombre and Taroc, a game with 72 cards all painted with suns, and moons, and devils and monks.
[1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 236
The pack of cards with which Tarocco is played, consists of two parts; the first is fifty-six cards of the usual Italian suits, Spade, Coppe, Bastoni, and Denari... The other part consists of twenty-two cards,..twenty-one of these are called Tarocchi, and the twenty-second Il Matto, or the fool.]
1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 318
Skilful players of écarté and tarok.
Etymology:
< French tarot (also 16th cent. tarault , tarau ), < Italian *tarocco (plural tarocchi ): see taroc n.
a. One of a set of playing-cards, first used in Italy in the 14th c. (Also used in fortune-telling.) Also attrib.
b. pl. The game played with these.The tarots, strictly speaking, are a series of 22 figured cards (21 of which are numbered), all being trumps, which are added to a set of 56 (in four suits), forming a pack of 78.
1592 G. Delamothe French Alphabeth 150
Will you play at Tables, at Dyce, at Tarots, at Chesses?
1872 W. Skeen Early Typogr. 55
A single pack of ‘tarots’, admirably painted about 1415 by Marziano,..cost the enormous sum of 1500 golden crowns (about £625).
1888 Chambers's Encycl. II. 763/1
No Spanish tarots are known to exist.
1899 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 611
Piot..was..the first to collect ‘Tarots’, those valuable playing cards, which now fetch such a high price.
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 2 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl.,
As fall the Tarot cards, so fell Each rose~page of the Oracle.
1928 D. Byrne Destiny Bay vii. 319
An old woman crazed by gambling and tarot cards.
1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 180
Justine..would sit cross-legged on the bed and begin to lay out the little pack of Tarot cards.
1972 Time 19 June 26/2
The Center also presents tarot-card readings.
1977 Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 3
Some Milan card makers reached a high degree of technical and artistic quality, including specialisation in a particular type of Tarot pack, usually with a narrow format.
Forms: Also 16–18 tarok, tarock.
Etymology:
< Italian *tarocco, in plural tarocchi , of unknown origin. Also German tarock , French tarot : see tarot n.
a. = tarot n. a.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words
Tarocchi, a kind of playing cardes called Tarocks or Terestriall triumphs.
b. (also in pl.) = tarot n. b.
1739 T. Gray Let. 16 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 128
Play at Ombre and Taroc, a game with 72 cards all painted with suns, and moons, and devils and monks.
[1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 236
The pack of cards with which Tarocco is played, consists of two parts; the first is fifty-six cards of the usual Italian suits, Spade, Coppe, Bastoni, and Denari... The other part consists of twenty-two cards,..twenty-one of these are called Tarocchi, and the twenty-second Il Matto, or the fool.]
1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 318
Skilful players of écarté and tarok.
Silence is golden.