TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - JUGGLER - FOOL - EMPEROR, EMPRESS [Top left] The Juggler, card 1 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseilles designs he had seen. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right], the Fool, card 0 of this set - note that the man is being attacked by a cat, rather than a dog, as in other versions of the card. [Bottom left] the Emperor, card 4 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom right] The Empress, card 3 of the Gebelin design. Court de Gebelin's theory of the origins of the Tarot
TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - JUGGLER - FOOL - EMPEROR, EMPRESS [Top left] The Juggler, card 1 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseilles designs he had seen. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right], the Fool, card 0 of this set - note that the man is being attacked by a cat, rather than a dog, as in other versions of the card. [Bottom left] the Emperor, card 4 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom right] The Empress, card 3 of the Gebelin design. 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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