Huck
baba-prague said:
So I would tend, until I find other evidence, to believe that tarot as we know it (more or less), originated in Western Europe sometime in the medieval period - I don't suppose we will ever know exactly - and was initiallly used for a game. Whatever more romantic version I would LIKE to believe.
Honestly, being a romantic at heart I do in some ways hate to follow the more mundane theory, but my rationale leaves me no choice.
Call me brainwashed
I guess, as long a medium, which is acquired by many people, is "new", it is interesting in itself as that what it is. Divination arrives and uses the medium, when the medium is old, perhaps with a little authority, but not more totally interesting in its common use.
Most common divination tools have antiquity, nobody likes to divinate with things, that are recently constructed and "defined" - they usually don't sell well. If it is old, it is an accepted methode, when it is new you smell the human spirit