![]() ![]() In the year 1369 playing cards are not mentioned in a decree issued by Charles VI of France against various forms of gambling however, 28 years later, the Prevot of Paris, in an ordinance dated January 22, 4ġ397, forbids working people from playing tennis, ball, cards, or ninepins excepting only on holidays. Covelluzzo, a fifteenth-century chronicler, relates the introduction into Viterbo of the game of cards in the year 1379. A German monk, Johannes, describes a game called Ludas Cartarum played in the year 1377. The emergence of Tarot cards in Europe predates by over five centuries the work of Waite. Gebelin asserts that it is from the Egyptians and Gypsies that Tarot cards were dispersed throughout Europe. Thoth was the Egyptian Mercury, said to be one of the early Kings and the inventor of the hieroglyphic system. Court de Gebelin writing in Le Monde Primitif in 1781 advances the theory that Tarot 3Ĭards derived from an ancient Egyptian book, The Book of Thoth. ![]() In The Key to the Tarot he writes: “The true tarot is symbolism it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.” What are the Tarot cards about which Waite so skillfully writes? What is the message of each card and when and where did these fascinating cardboard symbols first originate? The precise origin of Tarot cards in antiquity remains obscure. ![]() Waite utilized symbolism as the key to the Tarot pack. Arthur Edward Waite (1857– 1942) was a genuine scholar of occultism whose published works include The Holy Kabbalah and The Key to the Tarot first issued in England in 1910. Order Desk 80 FAX 20 Instructions excerpted from THE KEY TO THE TAROT by Arthur Edward Waite.179 Ludlow Street, Stamford, CT 06902 USA 20 Reissued in collaboration with Miss Sybil Waite and Rider & Company, London Recolored by Virginijus Poshkus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 © 2015 by U.S. Designed by Pamela Colman Smith® under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Stamford, CT 06902 USAīased upon the original and only authorized edition of the famous 78-card Rider-Waite® Tarot Deck. ![]()
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