PROPHETICAL, EDUCATIONAL
AND PLAYING CARDS
Atouts of an Early Italian Pack of Tarots
| 1 Il Bagattel 2 La Papessa 3 L’Imperatrice | 4 L’Imperatore 5 Il Papa 6 Gli Amanti |
Prophetical, Educational
and
Playing Cards
By
MRS. JOHN KING VAN RENSSELAER
Author of
“The Devil’s Picture Books,” Etc.
LONDON
HURST & BLACKETT, Ltd.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE
1912
PRINTED BY
THE GEORGE H BUCHANAN COMPANY
Philadelphia, U. S. A.
The Oracle of Ishtar and Nebo
Uttered by a Woman Baya (or Witch)
a Native of Arabela
| “I proclaim it aloud—What Has Been Will Be— I am Nebo—The Lord of the Writing Tablet— Glorify Me.” |
CONTENTS
| Chapter I—Prophetical and Other Cards | 27-57 |
| Divining cards—Tablets of fate—Tarots—Gambling cards—Their difference—Persiancards—Oldest emblems—Standard packs of Tarots—German designs—French designs—Rougeet Noir—Persia and Sweden—Writers on cards—The three gods—Derivation of name—Mercury and his predecessors—Writerof E-Sigalia—Fortune-telling—The priest of Thoth—Speech—Italian Tarots—L’Ombre—From leaves to cards—Attributesof Mercury—Atouts—de Gebelin—From arrows to cards—Gambling sticks of King Qa—Rods—Devices—Argiphontes—Cylleniusor Agoneus—Caduceator—Chthonius—The study of cards—Rods—Many authorities—Papus—Temple at Baiæ—Bookof Thoth—Addha-Nari—Heraldry—Tradesmen’s signs—Lady Mary WortleyMontagu—Terminus—Cestus—Pigs and tongues—Gazelle—Number Thirteen—Joker. | |
| Chapter II—The Book of Thoth, Hermes, and Nebo | 58-71 |
| Its leaves—Mercury’s attributes—Il Matto—Nebo—Tablets of fate—The Atouts—Theirsignificance—de Gebelin—Egyptian deities—Parchment records—Thoth the framer of laws—Bible of the gypsies—Attributes ofMercury—Interpretatio ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |