Cerulean
"Everything including games was founded on allegory..."
Translated by Donald Tyson...for our reading pleasure!
The following two essays appear in Volume 8, Book 1, pages 365-410 of the work Monde Primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne (The Primitive World, analyzed and compared with the modern world). The nine volumes of this unfinished work were published in Paris over the period 1773-82. The eighth volume appeared in 1781.
The first essay, titled Du Jeu des Tarots, was written by Court de Gébelin himself; the author of the second, titled Recherches sur les Tarots, et sur la Divination par les Cartes des Tarots, par M. Le C. de M. (Study on the Tarots, and on Divination with Tarot cards, by M. the C. of M.), has been identified as Louis Raphaël Lucrèce de Fayolle, the Comte de Mellet (1727-1804).
http://www.donaldtyson.com/gebelin.html
To quote Robert Place in his Symbols of Alchemy Course...
"Because of this myth we are involved in this tarot...it is so powerful and appeals to our imagination..."
I thought of that and wanted to read it myself.
Hope it is helpful to you!
Cerulean
Translated by Donald Tyson...for our reading pleasure!
The following two essays appear in Volume 8, Book 1, pages 365-410 of the work Monde Primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne (The Primitive World, analyzed and compared with the modern world). The nine volumes of this unfinished work were published in Paris over the period 1773-82. The eighth volume appeared in 1781.
The first essay, titled Du Jeu des Tarots, was written by Court de Gébelin himself; the author of the second, titled Recherches sur les Tarots, et sur la Divination par les Cartes des Tarots, par M. Le C. de M. (Study on the Tarots, and on Divination with Tarot cards, by M. the C. of M.), has been identified as Louis Raphaël Lucrèce de Fayolle, the Comte de Mellet (1727-1804).
http://www.donaldtyson.com/gebelin.html
To quote Robert Place in his Symbols of Alchemy Course...
"Because of this myth we are involved in this tarot...it is so powerful and appeals to our imagination..."
I thought of that and wanted to read it myself.
Hope it is helpful to you!
Cerulean