Teheuti
Amazon.com has an info section called "So you'd like to . . ."
Under "Know the History of Tarot" is a version that seems to be a mishmash
of Starbird's material, Paul Foster Case, and ???
This is what might happen if wikipedia, for instance, was unmonitored:
It begins:
"The historical version of the Tarot begins in the 1100's with the
Knights of Templar." It seems the 'Knights of Templar' (whoever they
were) were Cathars who believed Mary Magdalene married Jesus, and that
Jesus "was a powerful, mystical, sexual human being." Later, Magdalene
and her daughter "created two churches in France called the Churches
of the Black Madonna."
Four paragraphs in and we haven't gotten to the tarot yet.
The Templars found a scroll that survived the burning of the library
of Alexandria that told of "angels in charge of the transition points
along our path in life (these became the Trumps/or the Major Arcana)."
They made them into cards known as "the Anceint Egyptian Book of Angels."
The Templars were destroyed by the Pope because they believed Christ
was sexual and married. The Cathars, believing they were the true
blood of Christ, decided to marry into all the noble families.
"The cards began to represent the torture and death of the Knights of
Templar as well as an attempt of the Church to kill the ideas of the
Cathars." The Pope then banned the Tarot as 'demonic.'
The gypsies knew all about this, but some used the cards for
manipulative fortune-telling - "giving the Tarot another negative
connotation."
"A Dominican monk, Brother Johannes . . . kept track of where the game
was appearing so discipline could be handed out to the offenders." (?)
"The Major Arcana remains a mystery as to where it originated."
Don't believe me - read it for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/K2CVMP4S58F1
This is a good (though extreme) example of what happens when
'intuition' has completely free rein to pose as historical fact.
Is there something we can do about this. I haven't found a place yet on amazon where this article can be protested - but perhaps we could create a "Know the Real History of Tarot" guide?
Under "Know the History of Tarot" is a version that seems to be a mishmash
of Starbird's material, Paul Foster Case, and ???
This is what might happen if wikipedia, for instance, was unmonitored:
It begins:
"The historical version of the Tarot begins in the 1100's with the
Knights of Templar." It seems the 'Knights of Templar' (whoever they
were) were Cathars who believed Mary Magdalene married Jesus, and that
Jesus "was a powerful, mystical, sexual human being." Later, Magdalene
and her daughter "created two churches in France called the Churches
of the Black Madonna."
Four paragraphs in and we haven't gotten to the tarot yet.
The Templars found a scroll that survived the burning of the library
of Alexandria that told of "angels in charge of the transition points
along our path in life (these became the Trumps/or the Major Arcana)."
They made them into cards known as "the Anceint Egyptian Book of Angels."
The Templars were destroyed by the Pope because they believed Christ
was sexual and married. The Cathars, believing they were the true
blood of Christ, decided to marry into all the noble families.
"The cards began to represent the torture and death of the Knights of
Templar as well as an attempt of the Church to kill the ideas of the
Cathars." The Pope then banned the Tarot as 'demonic.'
The gypsies knew all about this, but some used the cards for
manipulative fortune-telling - "giving the Tarot another negative
connotation."
"A Dominican monk, Brother Johannes . . . kept track of where the game
was appearing so discipline could be handed out to the offenders." (?)
"The Major Arcana remains a mystery as to where it originated."
Don't believe me - read it for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/K2CVMP4S58F1
This is a good (though extreme) example of what happens when
'intuition' has completely free rein to pose as historical fact.
Is there something we can do about this. I haven't found a place yet on amazon where this article can be protested - but perhaps we could create a "Know the Real History of Tarot" guide?
