VGimlet
I chose the last one, because it made me laugh.
For myself, I don't think where it came from, however interesting, is as important as what it has become.
I've read lots of books, with many different theories, and while in reality I tend to lean more toward the tarot-as-playing-card theory, who knows?
I look at it this way - with all the decks that are out now for gaming (and don't many of those games seem like a kind of tarrochi variation?) who knows what someone will use them for in, say two or three hundred years if they were to come upon a deck.
For myself, I don't think where it came from, however interesting, is as important as what it has become.
I've read lots of books, with many different theories, and while in reality I tend to lean more toward the tarot-as-playing-card theory, who knows?
I look at it this way - with all the decks that are out now for gaming (and don't many of those games seem like a kind of tarrochi variation?) who knows what someone will use them for in, say two or three hundred years if they were to come upon a deck.