russell
Hello, and thank you for this community. Have been studying the Tarot for awhile now, after having been reluctant for a long time. Modern historical research has gotten me interested, like it did with the I Ching. I was studying the popes that led up to the time of the origin of the Tarot, and have come up with some ideas; just wondering what people think. Could Joan I of Naples have been the Papesse? She controversially supported the first antipope, Clement VII, who started the western schism and moved the papacy back to Avignon in 1378. Pope Urban declared her a heretic, St. Catherine of Siena accused her of being a servant of the devil, and she was proabably assassinated in 1382. Her name was Joan, like the original legendary female Pope. To top it all off, she had sold Avignon to Pope Clement VI, one of the original Avignon popes, in 1348. She seems a possible candidate for a female “pope” in the popular imagination of the time, especially as she was a very public figure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_I_of_Naples
Here is a link that comes right out and proposes Avignon as the origin of the Tarot: http://www.historyoftarotsandtheirorigin.com/ by Jean Verame.
—Russell
http://www.russellcottrell.com/TarotOfIdeals/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_I_of_Naples
Here is a link that comes right out and proposes Avignon as the origin of the Tarot: http://www.historyoftarotsandtheirorigin.com/ by Jean Verame.
—Russell
http://www.russellcottrell.com/TarotOfIdeals/