Tarot

• Tarot is associated with Fate.

  Modern card reading often claims to show a tendency in a life. The claim is modern occult and popular, not Ptolemy and not the Moirai.

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• Tarot is associated with Knowledge.

  A reading presents itself as knowledge of a situation. The pictures are a European printed pack, not Thoth’s palette.

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• Tarot is used in Lots.

  A shuffled pack is a modern European lot. The pictures are a game’s inheritance; the fortune-telling use is later.

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• Divination is used in Tarot.

  From the eighteenth century, tarot packs were used to tell fortunes. The use is modern relative to the game; it is not an ancient Egyptian book.

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Eighteenth-century Europe

• 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.

  from Antoine Court de Gébelin · Monde primitif, 1781 (tarot essay)

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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.

  from Antoine Court de Gébelin · Monde primitif, 1781 (tarot essay)

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