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Rider Waite Original Tarot Pack |
Rider and WaiteTarot and SetFacsimile edition of the Rider Waite Tarot deck originally printed from plates that were destroyed during the bombing of London during World War II. The deck and book set comes complete with Rider Waite Tarot deck by Pamela Colman Smith with original Tudor Rose back design, Celtic Cross divinatory chart, and the Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite. Topic: The origin of the word "tarot" Inaccurate: The word is Egyptian, Hebrew, or Latin; it is an anagram; it holds the key to the mystery of the cards. Current Historical Understanding: The earliest names for the tarot are all Italian. Originally the cards were called carte da trionfi (cards of the triumphs). Around 1530 (about 100 years after the origin of the cards), the word tarocchi (singular tarocco) begins to be used to distinguish them from a new game of triumphs or trumps then being played with ordinary playing cards. The etymology of this new word is not known. The German form is tarock, the French form is tarot. Even if the etymology were known, it would probably not tell us much about the idea behind the cards, since it only came into use 100 years after they first appeared.
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