Parzival
Justice:Its Original Placement
Huck said:For most games of Tarot the iconography of the chosen motifs is totally meaningless. Structurally it is necessary, that the cards have a hierarchical row. If you use animals as in the Animal Tarot, buildings or social events as in some of the 19th century deck, it doesn't matter....
The iconography itself as a complex artwork might be overcrowded with symbolic meaning, whatever the artist did like and the commissioner wanted, but it not naturally tells us anything about the really played game.
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Yes, the symbols are irrelevant to the game--thus, animals in sequence are equal to Platonic virtues, death, devil, sun, world, etc, in sequence. The iconography "does not tell us anything about the game." And yet the iconography is still there, with the game, whether the originators wish to see it or see through it to the game. That is why in 1527 Teofilo Folengo could write a sonnet in Italian with all the trumps symbolically incorporated. It's an interesting mix-- game and symbol-- to consider.