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Re: The 14 + 8 theory

I am very curious about whether the pigment analysis of the PMB cards showed anything interesting. I unfortunately have the bad habit (it's happened before) of unconsciously supposing that when it is 9:30 am in New York it is 12:30 pm on the west coast. Actually, when it is 12:30 pm on the west coa...

Re: The Tower

I never posted in this part of the forum. Some time ago, Huck asked me to do so. I will be careful to show material that not yet has been posted on these pages. Let me start with the very interesting interpretation of the Tower card of Jaques Vievil. This card has clearly be inspired by an early 16t...

Re: The 14 + 8 theory

Between Nathaniel and Huck (I am not sure about Iolon), Iolon is waiting for the Tarocchi Virtual Study Day on the 21st of June, hoping to get some scientific answers on a lot of unanswered questions. Some theories might be reinforced and ohers might fade away. Whatever we will find out that day, i...

Re: The 14 + 8 theory

Following the 5x14 theory, which has nothing to do with the 14+8 theory of Nathaniel, there was no World card in the 14 cards of the first painter of the PMB and naturally no reason to discuss, if Judgment or World was meant to be the highest trump. When following the 5x14 theory (as I do) the ques...

Re: The 14 + 8 theory

This identification has been in the basic literature since the 1960s. The earliest I know to explicitly name the figure God was Gertrude Moakley, in 1966. Gertrude Moakley, The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family (New York Public Library, 1966), p. 110: Thanks for ...

Re: The 14 + 8 theory

But there is also another point which I think confirms this ranking of the Visconti Sforza Judgment and World cards beyond doubt, and it greatly surprises me that no one seems to have ever pointed it out before: The Judgment card has God on it. Hello Nathaniel. Now it is my turn to react very slowl...

Re: More invention ruminations

The 21 possible combinations of two dice corresponds well with the image of the Wheel of Fortune at the heart of the sequence, if we imagine that morality and mathematical aspects were conceived at the same time. I have difficulties to follow these arguments. In mathematics there may be 21 possible...

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