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Monde primitif
Antoine Court de Gébelin
book · 1781 (tarot essay)
Antoine Court de Gébelin, Monde primitif (volume on tarot).
Monde primitif analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne
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Eighteenth-century Europe
Ankh is associated with Egyptomania.
Eighteenth- and later European fashion borrowed the looped cross as an Egyptian look. Court de Gébelin’s Egypt is a modern claim about tarot, kin to that fashion.
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Egyptomania influenced Tarot.
Court de Gébelin presented tarot as Egyptian wisdom in 1781. The claim is historically important as a modern origin-story, not as Egyptology.
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Tarot is historically related to Eighteenth-century Europe.
Fortune-telling with tarot packs is an eighteenth-century European use. The game is older than that use; Egypt is a costume in the essay.
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Pyramid is associated with Egyptomania.
Later Europe made the pyramid a silhouette of mystery and “energy.” That is reception, not a mason’s brief.
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Europeans later called the ankh a “key of life.” The hieroglyph is a looped cross; it is not a lock-key of Roman doors.
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Eighteenth-century Europe is associated with Egyptomania.
Antiquarian Egypt and tarot-Egypt belong to that Europe. Court de Gébelin is a dated claim.
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