Alright! I have just read a very biased review of a Bohemian deck of Tarot Cards......apparently there are! folks out there that believe paper wasn't invented until the 14th century, that Roma peoples copied Italian playing decks and used them to make money from fortune telling. Gonna spit two words out : Egyptians Papyrus. Oh, and the modern day playing cards came from Tarot - not vice versa. It's almost as unbelievable as the British historian on you tube in charge of a Viking jewellery exhibit in London telling us that the Vikings had no real written language. Hello! Runic? The basis for the English alphabet? Invented by Odin....who was a part of creating the ancestors of the northern peoples...but you know that would be stuff a historian should know.
My rant for the day!
Well, as some Italian friends have pointed out, Tarot cards were ordered made by two ruling families in Milan in the 14th century (I have included a link). My point on this. Obviously Italian Roma introduced the concept of Tarot to Italy, word got around and of course the ruling families wanted custom made Tarot Decks of their own. Roma law forbids written documentation of their culture - this was initially to protect them.
There are also pre-Egyptian, pre-Indian civilizations like the Sumerians who were very advanced and showed interest in astrology and cartomacy before such labels were invented.
Runes were around even before the God Odin made some for his set, as he revealed in his poem Havamal. If Odin, Vile, and Ve created mankind after the Runes then fortune telling is to be accredited to the giants. But I think it's safe to credit the Roma and Sinti people's (Gypsies) with Tarot Cardsbin the way we think about and use them today.
My rant for the day!
Well, as some Italian friends have pointed out, Tarot cards were ordered made by two ruling families in Milan in the 14th century (I have included a link). My point on this. Obviously Italian Roma introduced the concept of Tarot to Italy, word got around and of course the ruling families wanted custom made Tarot Decks of their own. Roma law forbids written documentation of their culture - this was initially to protect them.
There are also pre-Egyptian, pre-Indian civilizations like the Sumerians who were very advanced and showed interest in astrology and cartomacy before such labels were invented.
Runes were around even before the God Odin made some for his set, as he revealed in his poem Havamal. If Odin, Vile, and Ve created mankind after the Runes then fortune telling is to be accredited to the giants. But I think it's safe to credit the Roma and Sinti people's (Gypsies) with Tarot Cardsbin the way we think about and use them today.
