The Tarot

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THE
TAROT,
THE TAROTpack qfcards is amystay. Whatwas its originandpurpose? It has bem saidto derivefrom India or Irán, even China, cmdto have bem broughtto tfieWest by Gypsies, returning Crusaders, or the. Arab iiwaders cfSpain. Various writers have cíaimedthatitembodies the wisdomcfancientEgypt,pagan.Cehic tracŰtions, andthesymboHsm ofDante's '.Vivine Comeá). The source ofthe vay word Tarot' has bem aSegedfy discoveredin Latin, Hebrew and Eqyptian.
Inacímandlivefyrmtmer,RicfumíCcwerufísh. presetüs the. myths andfacts about the Tarot. He describes the earűest knownpacks andtheir devebpment through changes inreíigious andpoüticaíthougfit. The author cdso gives a comprehens ive aacmnt of the mony different interpretations anduses ofthe Tarot. He chscussesthesignificancetftheaírds bothinmagicand meditation, andfmaífy hetums to whatmanypeopk. regardas the mostjascinating aspect ofthe Tarot: its use inteűingtfiejuture.
This bookforms a compíete tfwformatü
compendium... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE
TAROT,
THE TAROTpack qfcards is amystay. Whatwas its originandpurpose? It has bem saidto derivefrom India or Irán, even China, cmdto have bem broughtto tfieWest by Gypsies, returning Crusaders, or the. Arab iiwaders cfSpain. Various writers have cíaimedthatitembodies the wisdomcfancientEgypt,pagan.Cehic tracŰtions, andthesymboHsm ofDante's '.Vivine Comeá). The source ofthe vay word Tarot' has bem aSegedfy discoveredin Latin, Hebrew and Eqyptian.
Inacímandlivefyrmtmer,RicfumíCcwerufísh. presetüs the. myths andfacts about the Tarot. He describes the earűest knownpacks andtheir devebpment through changes inreíigious andpoüticaíthougfit. The author cdso gives a comprehens ive aacmnt of the mony different interpretations anduses ofthe Tarot. He chscussesthesignificancetftheaírds bothinmagicand meditation, andfmaífy hetums to whatmanypeopk. regardas the mostjascinating aspect ofthe Tarot: its use inteűingtfiejuture.
This bookforms a compíete tfwformatü
compendium ofinjbrmationonthe Tarot, inchdingckarinstnutiomonhowtoíay out andreadthe cards. There are mony expíanatory diagrams andtabíes andthe book is iűustratedwüh magnóként co(owrp(ates, andpictwes in bíack and wíute.
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Richárd Cavendis fi was Sorn in1930 at Heníey-on-TfiameSj Engíand, andwas educatedat Ckrist's HospitaC, Loníon, andBrasenost Coűege, Oxford He is tfieautfiorcfTfíe 'Bíac^bts, a standardworkontfie kistory cfocadtism, andwas editor of íMdn, Myth and OVÍagic, wfiich broke new groundas an ittustrated encycfopedia oftfie supematural. He has aíso compiíed The 'Encycfopedia ofthe. Une^píained, witfi Professor J.B. Rfiine as speciaíconsuítant. Mr Cavendisfi is aíso the autfior ofR Jtistory of'Magic (mdJQngSfrtfiurand tírn(^TuU.Heiscmra^theáitorcfOtdcffTozm iűustfatedmontfrfy magaziné on fierítage and conservation. Vissza