earthair
What he said - I have been following this thread too, and I can't understand the point either. Is this simply that you are building a "model" VS on wood and we get to watch ? Or is there some deeper meaning that totally escapes me ?
I think the point is that he thinks there is a ubersized version of the game on a wall and a specific winning layout which will unlock magical mysteries.
I just replied in the sibling-topic on TH to another contributor and thought parts from that answer could be helping with understanding here too (4th page there).
>> Why is it that you insist that only the PMB is at issue here? <<
Because as you can see the evidential data are not publicly availabe and very specific for every sole deck.
The caliper of the PMB "cards" (who were obviously none because they were not made for a card play at the TABLE.) was not known to anyone because nobody measured it!
The caliper alone (not only my assumption but the real measured and confirmed caliper) would have made it impossible to use them in any regular "card play fashion".
The caliper wasn't at ANY time questioned and all people who care about Tarot hear/read everywhere that the PMB "cards" were handmade and used for gaming at a table (like I hear even Mr. Voelkle assuming that the people at the fresco in the Palazzo Borromeo do just that: PLAY with those treasures in a game with cards AT a table).
I did point out in the other thread (Tarotée - The Back-Door To The Secret > the exact place I don't know at the moment - but I can look!) that those persons are OBSERVING the "cards" and the WALL to find the right "card" for the next correct place in the already achieved pattern on the WALL on the thereat painted kilim structure with the Tarotée-Crossings - the net of lines who are regarded the playground of the 16 gods.
They were made ONLY for ONE specific "game" at the WALL of a room that had to have AT LEAST 10 feet high walls - what could be found only in the house of a very rich person.
To get this "game" on a regular big table - say in a tavern - the TdM (for instance) was invented. It got evolved and the nails were not needed anymore (because of the structure of TdM card 1/3 - the ladder).
I tried to make some readers familiar with the IDEA that decoding today is a scientific thing with certain requirements that can be taught and studied to an end. This code we are talking about here (with the caliper too) was known originally only to the Visconti family (and later the Sforza) who were in partly posession of a "dead" fragment since Ottone declared to have captured a "beast" and swore >> I will not violate the Snake's uses << when he was Archbishop of Milan.
Most of those things I've written already and much more. It seems to be my fault though to have not made myself clear enough. Please ask some specific questions!
I explained already that to my knowledge only the handmade Visconti-Sforza "cards" bear that kilim structure that is mirrored in the Tarotée - THAT was the whole point of the Tarotée-Thread... (...)
(...)... So I hope you understand that I really do not mean to be rude here - but what is the point of posting pictures and words when they are not used for following posts and/or replies.
I think I explained it here now in a sufficient way that and why the 74 survivors are the only possible subject for THIS topic. When they would be understood completely - and only then - it would be possible to COMPARE them with other "luxury cards (who - by the way LACK the substantial pattern to be READ - as an unbound book)". That was one of the premises of the Tarotée-Thread (...) and THIS thread (...) was announced as a prequel to that former thread.
I hope that helps?
Adrian
The problem is that the information is spread between 2 websites and many many pdfs/photos/diagrams. I think we've all understood that you think the cards couldn't be shuffled because the stack would be huge...but that does not prove they couldn't be swooshed around like dominos or Mahjong tiles.
I like your idea that they nailed them to the wall for a game, but please can you post your rules and game play here in this thread as I can't find it?
Why do you assume they were nailed as part of a game and not pinned to a wall for ornamental purposes many years after?
ETA
As my amusing youtube post was removed, some subsequent posts now make no sense, so I'll clarify-
The most obvious reason for large cards being nailed or pinned to a wall would be some sort of gameshow style card game, like Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right where contestants predict whether the new card in the line would be higher or lower than the previous card. Or a sort of Tarot Bingo where previously drawn trumps are displayed until someone gets a full set. Or maybe having no TV screens, games played with smaller version of the cards were 'broadcast' on the wall for the audience like professional poker.