Fuzzmello
This thread is in response to some questions set forth by ihcoyc:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7616
It seems most would accept these symbols as is with little discussion of where they came from, and there's a lot of sense in that. I don't necessarily want to know how my transmission works before I drive my truck.
Having said that, I think questions like these could be as important to Tarot as the given interpretations of the cards themselves. Maybe by finding the answers, we might discover new (to us) dimensions of Tarot that prove to be very useful.
I think I agree with this page: http://www.pagat.com/ipcs/history.html when it guesses that cards probably orginated in China and carried suit symbols as they made their way to Europe in the 12th century.
It's the only reference on the net I can find directly relating to suit symbols.
Fuzz
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7616
It seems most would accept these symbols as is with little discussion of where they came from, and there's a lot of sense in that. I don't necessarily want to know how my transmission works before I drive my truck.
Having said that, I think questions like these could be as important to Tarot as the given interpretations of the cards themselves. Maybe by finding the answers, we might discover new (to us) dimensions of Tarot that prove to be very useful.
I think I agree with this page: http://www.pagat.com/ipcs/history.html when it guesses that cards probably orginated in China and carried suit symbols as they made their way to Europe in the 12th century.
It's the only reference on the net I can find directly relating to suit symbols.
Fuzz