Prophetical, Educational and Playing CardsVan Rensselaer, John King, Mrs.
Religion
Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards
Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs.
Fortune-telling by cards -- History; Playing cards -- History
Wheel of Fortune--Osiris--Anubis--Typhon--The Circle--
Wheels of Ezekiel and Pythagoras--Yod--Termius--Use of
Yod--Anubis called the Lord of Burying Ground--As jackal--
Number Eleven--Strength--Mystic hat--Una--Amazons--Kaph--
Goddess Neith--Emblems--Inscription on her shrine--
Brides--Number Twelve--Il Pendu--Hanged man--Freemason's
signals--Pagat--Lamed--Its meanings--Vulcan--Number
Thirteen--Death--Skeleton--Proverb--Horse of Aurora--Bad
luck--Its reasons--Mem and its meanings--Number Fourteen--
Temperance--Nut or Nepte--Titles and description--Nun--
Oil--Oblations--Number Fifteen--Devil--Set or Sutech--
Parents--Title of Hyksos kings--Ears--Zam--Significances--
Number Sixteen--Tower--Lighting god--Castle of Plutus--
Rameses II and the thieves--Bael--Enlil--Second Dynasty
of Ur--Dr. Radau's translations--Goddess Nin-Mar's hymn--
Ayin--Number Seventeen--The stars--Dog star--Nebo's
mountain--Hebe--Oblations--Gazelle--Typification--Number
Eighteen--La Lune--Attributes--Tzaddi--Diana--Number
Nineteen--The sun--Zoph--Ra and Rameses--Number Twenty--
Day of Judgment--Resh--Significance--Pluto--Ishtar--
Epitaph of Lord de Ros--Number Twenty-one--Le Monde--
Verity--Four Apostolic emblems--Their manifold meanings--
Tau--Le Fou or the Joker--Mat--Emblems--Shin--Gypsies--
Early Tarots--Intention of Atouts--Bible of Gypsies.
CHAPTER VII--PIPS OF THE TAROT PACK 175-195
Suits--Court cards--German, Spanish, Italian and French
cards--Emblems of Mercury--Four castes--Lucky devices--
Addha--Nari--Phallus--Cteis--Vau--Jod-He-Vau-He--Divining
arrows--Golden rod--Numbers 17--Symbols of the
Israelites--Indian--Typical of families--Chinese
fortune-telling--Zeichiku--Meisir games of Arabia--Naib
or prophet--Trèfle--Coppas--Assyrian cup--Cup-bearers--
Saki-bearer--Jamshid--Omar Kayyam--Golden cup--Texts--
Hall of Two Truths--Osiris--Ma--Thoth--Espadas or Piques--
Argiphontes--Meaning of sword in Hebrew--Pitch-pot--Money
suit--Collars--Zones--Meaning of suits--Numerical value--
Court cards--Their meaning--Seventy-eight Tarots--Rods of
Aaron.
CHAPTER VIII--SOME OLD ITALIAN TAROTS 196-207
Mysteries--St. Paul--Osiris--Bewildered historians--
"Portrayed on the walls"--Nebo the Writer--Gypsies--The
crossed palm--Spanish cards--The Egyptian fleet--Essay of
Count Emiliano di Parravicino--Professional teachers of
early days--Cards belonging to the Duke di Visconti--The
Royal pack--The artist da Tortona--A wedding gift--Old
Tarots--The artist Cicognara--Historic cards--The
proverb--Fibbias Tarocci--Museum at Bergamo--Victoria and
Albert Museum--Beautiful Tarots.
CHAPTER IX--HEARTS AND DIAMONDS. SPADES AND CLUBS 208-221
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