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How to avoid purchase of unintended decks, written mainly from a historical and typological point of view. This blog is intended to be helpful to beginners in particular.

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So many decks

The cradle of tarot (So many decks 2)

By the time playing card decks had become prevalent in Europe, the Kingdom of Sicily was the Korea of its time: There were two political entities claiming to be the real Kingdom of Sicily. This reminds us, that there was no unified Italy at the time. The old kingdom of Sicily split in 1282, and it wasn't until 1816 the two claimants reunited into one kingdom, the strangely named Kingdom of the two Sicilies.    North of these two rivalling southern countries, the Papal States (Holy See)
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So many decks

What does middle eastern judges have in common with German Jacks and Spanish playing cards? (So many decks 1)

Decks, decks, decks. There are so many of them. How do you tell them apart? Where did it all begin?   From the late 18th century to the mid-20th century there circulated a hypothesis, wild as it may seem now, that the tarot deck was invented in ancient Egypt – and with ancient Egypt I mean the time period c. 2700 BCE to 395 CE, but please remember, that Egypt was under foreign administration (Persians, Græco-Macedonians and Romans) from 525 BCE.   Today, we know more about bo
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