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Re: The Devil

In my recent posts about the Tower card , I presented evidence to support the hypothesis that early tarot players may have been disturbed by that card because it appeared to depict sinners being damned to Hell by divine wrath. Cardplaying was an activity that was regularly condemned by preachers as ...

Re: The Tower

On the question of whether there was a devil on the original Tower card, there is another consideration that has also influenced my thinking, namely the rarity of this card among the surviving cards from the 15th century. All the trumps in the standard set of 22 are represented by at least two survi...

Re: The Tower

[The following is quoted from a comment by Ross on his Tarot History facebook group on February 8, 2025] For the interpretation of the image, I wonder if the Minchiate image is not a classicization similar to Ferrara Sun, with Diogenes and Alexander, and, probably, the Tarot de Marseille's Lover, s...

Re: The Tower

When I wrote that post yesterday, I had unaccountably forgotten that a Roman Tower card does survive, part of a sheet fragment from the 16th century, now in the Archivio Colonna at the Biblioteca S. Scolastica. It most likely dates from the mid-16th century, when the use of recycled paper in pastebo...

Re: The Tower

Ross's recent posts on the Tower over on his Tarot History facebook group got me thinking about the Tower again, and led me to wonder: Was the Tower perhaps the only card that originally bore an image that caused discomfort to early tarot players in the 15th century? First, let's make it clear that ...

Re: SOS!!!!!!!!!

I have the same problem with Avast's Web Shield. This is the message that appears (I hope you can access it): AvastMessage.jpg If you try to access the site again after that, you don't see that message, you just see an error message in your browser that says that the site is not secure. But if you t...

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