The Types Of Tarot

This article reports on the different types of Tarot cards and which are traditional types of Tarot. It also attempts to present some important historical data on the origins and transformations that were suffering the Tarot cards over time, in addition to its uses and what were the people who used it most. The Tarot is an ancient art that was changed and diversified over time and the influence of different cultures. We could say that is the product of a combination of traditions from different cultures, but today is a specific knowledge that, although variants, is an organized set of philosophical knowledge and techniques whose uses are fairly well defined. According to some occult he was created in Egypt from the Book of Thoth (the sacred book that was written in all Egyptian wisdom) and that priests reduced to 42 cards to simplify your understanding. It was originally drawn or engraved in letters of gold or leather hard so they could be transported easily, and that will not deteriorate, which, allowed to transmit the secrets to his disciples.

Through the Tarot, we could teach the tradition in other more remote temples (Egypt came to expand to Asia Minor) and could be consulted as an oracle when an army or a group was going from one place to another. Much later, the Jews who settled in Alexandria (Egypt), reduced it to 22 cards to fit your alphabet and the Kabbalah. Also, the Greek soldiers of Alexander the Great, they learned it and used it as a form of gambling. It is possible that Greek priests have used the Tarot as an oracle. (There are references in Greece tell about a set of cards that were used to figure situations, with images of the gods of Olympus and four types of birds (Considered messengers of the Gods). On the other hand, the Gypsies, from the India and the Turkish Mamelukes, two peoples settled for a time in Egypt and migrated to the area Occitania (Which ranges from southern France, Catalonia (Spain) and the Alps (Italy), contributed to the spread of Tarot throughout Europe, using it mainly to predict the future. Many sources say the Tarot of Marseilles, along the Egyptian Tarot, are most respects the canons of tradition going back to the legacy of Egypt, however, recently was printed in France for over 250 years, The Tarot of Marseilles is considered critical to learning from all tarotista, since, contains in its letters a compendium of specific archetypes of tradition and therefore it is highly recommended by experts to delve into the hidden secrets of Tarot.

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