Cher Robert,
Merci d'être such a gentleman. And hello also to Yves and Ross and Eugim and Michael. The abbott in Cluny at the time of Suger was the Benedictine Pierre le Vénérable. These two together with Bernard de Clairvaux, a Cistercian, are said by French historian Alain Demurger to have been instrumental in the maintenance, from Europe, of the early Templars. I bring in the Templars here because I believe that no good narrative about the Tarot should try to do without them.
Did I ever mention the Modern Egyptian (XIIth century)connection ? And the Gypsies ? It's all on my blog. The only thing you wont find in my theory is stuff from before the XIIth century. I have an agreement with the Marseilles Tarot lord Philippe T.-C. to leave all that is before the XIIth to him. Right after we virtually shook hand on that, he started digging and came up with the monk Cassien.
I hear now that he is indeed going to bring us back to the feminine. BTW, the feminine person at the center of Le monde is really Jesus-Christ. You can tell because of his breasts. XIIth century fashion had it that Jesus should wear them in the iconography. Chek the Quadrige d’Aminabab (by Suger) stained window in Saint-Denis or my blog
http://tarotchoco.quebecblogue.com/2009 ... -le-monde/, you'll see Jesus on the cross with breasts.
Interestingly, both Jesus - the one in Tarot XXI and the one in the stained window- are surounded in each corner by the four Animals. Of course, the fact that the ¨lady¨ in XXI has her legs crossed is probably an other cue about her alter ego, the cross on wich he, Jesus-Christ, is said to have died.
I believe this gem of a finding will
put me in good standing on this terrace.
But I digress. The bars on the major Arcanas, the Trumps, help in the mathematical solutions. Can't do without them. I have a page on my blog with the solutions. I promise I will translate all when I retire. You see, I work for a professional translator who pays me a handsome fee to assist her in, but never mind that. I'm not going to translate my blog now because I have enough on his plate with translating. And I still have to finish decoding the 16 Honneurs.
Unless somebody wants to hire me now...
With the main cipher of the code, La papesse decodes as 17 (
LA*
PAPESS
E: (12+1)x 2=
26. 16+1+16+5+5=
43. 43-26=
17.)because it is not just a roman II (2) up there in the top
cartouche, but also a 17.
With the second cipher, it decodes (S+S=38=11=2)as II (2). And yes, she has a large wiener crossing
from shoulder to shoulder, a private joke between monks that sounds only good in Latin.
Tarot de Marseille de Nicolas Conver by Héron