It does seem very odd. He names the animals, no doubt he sees them, but he freely mentions Christ in the same area, but doesn't name him as the "world", if he was looking at Vieville, I can't imagine him naming the evangelists and then not making a big deal about the Jesus.marco wrote:As noted by Ross, Piscina makes reference to the four evangelists.
If Piscina was looking at a World card similar to Vieville, he was interpreting the human figure at the centre of the card as the World. The other possibility (less likely, in my opinion) is that Piscina was looking at a card in which something else representing the World (for instance a circle as in the Visconti Sforza) was placed in the middle of the Four Evangelists.the Author has placed the image [or the "figure"] of the world in the middle of these four Holy Evangelists
it must be said that some of Piscina's interpretations of the trumps are quite strange. For instance, he speaks of the hanged-man as a suicide.
Marco
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This doesn't sound like Christ to me, or any other figure, it sounds as you suggest and doubt... an image of the world (as globe or city in circle) surrounded by the evangelists. "...the world cannot be without religion, whose precept has been written by these Holy Evangelists", I can't imagine this is Christ being described as "world". Reading it as ".. Christ cannot be without religion, whose precept has been written by these Holy Evangelists" is just so wrong." Now, the Author has placed the image of the world in the middle of these four Holy Evangelists, in order to teach us that the world cannot be without religion, whose precept has been written by these Holy Evangelists"
I'm doubting this is the typical Tarot de Marseille image he is describing.
As for the comment about the hanged man, it makes me think of Giotto, and his hanged "Despair":