TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - LADY POPE - POPE - CHARIOT - LOVERS [Top left] The Popess, card 2 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin referred to her as 'The High Priestess'. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] The Pope, card 5 of the Gebelin design, which he referred to as the Chief Hierophant, or High Priest. [Bottom left] The Chariot, card 7 of the Gebelin design, which he referred to as 'Osiris Triumphant'. [Bottom right] The Lovers, card 6 of the Geb
TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - LADY POPE - POPE - CHARIOT - LOVERS [Top left] The Popess, card 2 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin referred to her as 'The High Priestess'. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] The Pope, card 5 of the Gebelin design, which he referred to as the Chief Hierophant, or High Priest. [Bottom left] The Chariot, card 7 of the Gebelin design, which he referred to as 'Osiris Triumphant'. [Bottom right] The Lovers, card 6 of the Gebelin design, which he referred to as 'Marriage'. Court de Gebelin's theory of the origins of the Tarot cards was entirely fanciful, yet it caught the imagination of an entire generation of occultists. He recognised the cards as 'a book 'of 78 pages', which had escaped the destruction of the Egyptian libraries: it was of Egyptian design -even though the cards the reproduced in his own book reveal not a vestige of Egyptian learning or symbolism. He invented for the word Tarot an Egyptian etymology, insisting that it meant 'Royal Road' (this etymology was just as fanciful as his view that the cards were Egyptian in origin).
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