If I was to try and work out a reason for the subjects of Tarot in a systematic way -the order of the Trumps for my purpose has to have a logic. If for example I believed that there was a Salvation sequence to Tarot then the order would go in a particular way. Somewhere along the way there is a hic...
I don't want to hijack Rosanne's thread, so I'll make this brief. The facts establish that an order WAS memorized, and played, without numbers. Numbers were also added early to most kinds of trumps (just as cards evolved to show titles, numbers on the pips, became double ended, and showed corner ind...
At least two things allow us to suppose that it has always been played more or less like it is today. How much "more or less" is of interest--"maybe the game played a bit differently." Bolognese trumps did not begin to bear numbers until the late 18th century, much later than al...
Here's a question, and it's not me who thought it up. If the ordering was really important, wouldn't you bind the images into a book so there could be no mistake? The fact that they can be moved around, isn't that the whole point? (For game-playing, I mean.) Once they put numbers on the trumps, it's...
From what I can see--Huck is lately devoted to exploring the question of the evolution of the trumps to 22. Although he mentions 5x14 on occasion, I haven't seen him insisting on it in quite a while. In other words, Huck does not seem to be focused on proving the 5x14 idea so much as amassing eviden...