TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - DEVIL - DEATH - WHEEL - TOWER [Top left] The Devil, card 15 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin identified the card with Typhon, the Greek equivalent of the Egyptian god of darkness, Set. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] the Death card, number 13 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom left] The Wheel of Fortune, card 10 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom right] The House of God, card 16, of the Gebelin design, which he uniquely i
TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - DEVIL - DEATH - WHEEL - TOWER [Top left] The Devil, card 15 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin identified the card with Typhon, the Greek equivalent of the Egyptian god of darkness, Set. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] the Death card, number 13 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom left] The Wheel of Fortune, card 10 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom right] The House of God, card 16, of the Gebelin design, which he uniquely identified as The Castle of Plutus. 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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