A History of Egyptian Tarot
by
Lacy Robertson
One of the first decks of Etteilla was “Tarot Princess” . It was first published as illustrations in books of 1843, the designs are an attempt to establish that the above cards stand out for their supposed Egyptian origins. The letters were numbered consecutively from 1 to 78, after this system was when Etteilla began to emphasize the symbolism of the Tarot cards belong to the designs of an old book.
At that time the science of Egyptology was very young: the Rosetta stone was not discovered until 1799. Although we must point out one really important fact is that the first decks of Etteilla are interesting because they incorporate the symbolism of sources such as the Genesis and the text appearing in the myths of the creation of the “Corpus Hermeticum” of the Hermetic Philosophy , more specifically appeared in the Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus and translated from Greek into Latin by the distinguished Renaissance scholar Marsilio Ficino.
The next link in the history of Egyptian Tarot does not occur until 1863, showing the publication of a book entitled “L’homme rouge des Toileries” by a French author who writes under the pseudonym of Paul Christian . This paper reports on a meeting between Napoleon and a Benedictine monk who has an old manuscript.This manuscript describes in detail seventy-eight letters or symbolic images, which correspond to the Egyptian Tarot deck, but this time using the names and pictures. Virtually the same description of the Arcane reappear in the later work of Paul Christian in the “Histoire de la magie”, 1870.
Perhaps the event that marks a dividing line for the Egyptian Tarot was the publication in 1896 of ” The Hermetic Tarot 22 cards “by R. Falconnier. Here, for the first time can be seen the designs that really show a relationship with Egyptian art. The images were drawn by WEGENER and are based on the detailed descriptions of Egyptian art.
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A History of Egyptian Tarot
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