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Stephen Franklin's book
I've just come to this thread, but a search doesn't show any reference so far to a book published in 1988, so I thought I'd mention it, because its all about the Phoenician letters and Franklin's correspondences between them and the tarot and the lunar mansions - he includes reference to the planets.
I must say I hadn't heard of his book until someone asked if I based my own work on his (this in 2002, long after mine was finished)
In fact there is next-to-nothing about his ideas that I can agree with, except that Pennick's "Games of the Gods" and Kelley's book on the Phoenician alphabet is relevant.
Anyway:
Franklin, Stephen E., Origins of the Tarot Deck: a study of the astronomical substructure of game and divining boards, Jefferson: McFarland, 1988.
On the issue of alphabets... the Byblos syllabry is also worth considering.
And Kwaw has mentioned elsewhere the relevance of the Shay Lamora, the so-called Judeo-Arabic dialect used in North Africa.
I've just come to this thread, but a search doesn't show any reference so far to a book published in 1988, so I thought I'd mention it, because its all about the Phoenician letters and Franklin's correspondences between them and the tarot and the lunar mansions - he includes reference to the planets.
I must say I hadn't heard of his book until someone asked if I based my own work on his (this in 2002, long after mine was finished)
In fact there is next-to-nothing about his ideas that I can agree with, except that Pennick's "Games of the Gods" and Kelley's book on the Phoenician alphabet is relevant.
Anyway:
Franklin, Stephen E., Origins of the Tarot Deck: a study of the astronomical substructure of game and divining boards, Jefferson: McFarland, 1988.
On the issue of alphabets... the Byblos syllabry is also worth considering.
And Kwaw has mentioned elsewhere the relevance of the Shay Lamora, the so-called Judeo-Arabic dialect used in North Africa.