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Pas un autre code secret ? Eh oui… Les codes sont à la mode de nos jours. Mais j’ai coiffé le Code DaVinci. Je discute de ma découverte depuis dix ans. Les chiffres du code du Conver ont servi à construire le jeu au XIIe siècle. Tout ça s’est fait dans la région parisienne, […]

Welcome to Tarochoco. On this blog, you will find food for your TdM toughts. If you have enrolled yourself in a Tarot class where you’ve been taught that the game has an Italian origin instead of a French one, somebody has taken advantage of you. If you are one of the misguided souls teaching such […]

Astonishing character this Pendu immobilized at the end of his wire. He is an illustration of the torture victim suspended on the fourches patibulaires, the forks sinisters, to the gibet, the scaffold. Let’s quote the Petit Robert dictionnary. “Fourches patibulaires: scaffold composed in the beginning of two forks planted out of the ground, supporting a […]

Buono anniversario Zig! Riprendo qui il testo che tu m’ asso inviato su l’ inserimento del Tarot nella cultura italiana.
In è eternamente ringraziato.
Rom
 
¨Tarocchi is neither florentine nor milanese, it’s just plain standard Italian pronounced by every Italian “taròkki”! A double “c” is always pronounced, as in French “accent”. If it’s followed by an “h”, it […]

ORB Online Encyclopedia
Philosophy
Pseudo-Dionysius in the Twelfth Century Latin West
Dale Coulter
During the twelfth-century search for authorities the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius were increasingly used as part of a new theological outlook. No doubt the choice of pseudonyms by the author of the corpus aided in its popularity, yet the original synthesis of Christian teaching and the Neoplatonism […]

If it is the Tarot which is in the bag of Le mat, as we suppose sometimes, the spoon which is used as support for this bag would indicate that it’s content is food. And the length of the spoon’s handle suggests that Le mat does not eat this food himself and that he probably […]

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (1925- )
For my first text in English on this blog, I have chosen to speak about Sir Michael Dummett’s findings on Tarot origin. Of course, I dispute his conclusions - for me, Dummett has yet to come up with a theory - altough I can understand that most people may […]