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Ok. If this is so, it affects at least the traditional concept of tarot trumps as more or less inevitably including certain cards: fool, magician/juggler, papess, etc. This and the other Visconti decks either had no devils and towers, or they were all destroyed, and I'm inclined to the former idea now probably thanks to you Rosanne. So you are saying that this Hermit goes on the list as "not what we always expect in the tarot trumps" and is not a hermit but a moneylender, perhaps exemplifying Prudence as in, "beware the money lender" or "a prudent man borrows little" or some such?
Which makes me wonder about the hour glass, because it seems to me that a better way to show a money lender than a reminder of when the bill comes due, would be to show him with some money.
Which makes me wonder about the hour glass, because it seems to me that a better way to show a money lender than a reminder of when the bill comes due, would be to show him with some money.