jmd
Huck, I agree with so much of what you present here. Certainly, your statement
The close rapport which some are finding between Chess depictions in its twists and turns in various directions, combined with the earlier work done with Mamluk decks, and yet other work with cathedral imagery, all leads to not only deeper understanding of some of the forces at work and inherently operating in Tarot, but of better understanding both the mindset and technological constraints and resourcefulness of our mediaeval forebears.
Again, such wonderful further paths to be explored - and so little time!
- If we assume, that these "games" are meant to appear as playing cards, they are nearly "Tarot", but iconographical not identical to the Tarot series. But if we accept 5x14-games and also games like Boiardo-poem and Sola-Busca and the Mantegna-Tarocchi as "Tarot-related", then we have to do it again with this objects
The close rapport which some are finding between Chess depictions in its twists and turns in various directions, combined with the earlier work done with Mamluk decks, and yet other work with cathedral imagery, all leads to not only deeper understanding of some of the forces at work and inherently operating in Tarot, but of better understanding both the mindset and technological constraints and resourcefulness of our mediaeval forebears.
Again, such wonderful further paths to be explored - and so little time!