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Change: Again, John of Rheinfelden speaks of the ludus cartarum as a means by which all the world may be described and figuratively represented.23. A great worldmap was included in a pictorial version of the Islamic style Alamanc was produced for the king of France in 1375.c.1375. It offers
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Change: pattern of the long-distance mariners. That is to say, while the level of the basic 40 cards continues to represent the lower, penitential world, the
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Change: and to demonstrate the author's right to intellectual copyright, but not to present the whole book in sequential chapters. We are solely concerned with how the western pack first gained it form, emblems and earliest
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Change: in order to show how our conclusions were reached.The conclusions were as follows:1. That while the matter included in the cards came into Europe from regions governed by Islam, the
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Change: This was another original conclusion of the present author. It has since 1998 been widely adopted, usually without attribution. The author wishes to state that no such suggestion had been offered by any other source prior to the publication of her research in summary on the geocities website.The
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Change: We believe that use of the Almanac pages in this way developed among a sea-going people, but was also known along the tradeThe routesessays ofincluded thehere nearare east,all particularlyderived thefrom Nestoriansour oforiginal Christianresearch, Edessa,completed and later of Persia.
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Change: people, but was also known along the trade routes of the near east, particularly the Nestorians of Christian Edessa, and later of Persia.The essays are all derived from our original research, mounted here on thisresearch. site,They are edited extracts taken from the original manuscript. These extractsThey
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Oct 22 2006, 8:59 AM EDT
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Change: came into Muslim society from peoples who had been brought under Muslim rule from the 7th century onwards.2. That the content of the earliest remaining Atouts refers to the stars, but not those of the zodiac. The overall series reflects andan attempt to depict the stars of direction
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Change: It has the great added advantage of permitting practical calculation. We believe that use of the Almanac-style developed among a sea-going people.The essays derived from thatour original research, mounted here on this site, are edited extracts from the original manuscript by themanuscript. author.These Extractsextracts
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Change: 4. That the idea for a card-pack derives from using 'pages' of an Islamic-style almanac to aid teaching. In Europe, the book of psalms was
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Change: Renamed from Lineage of the Atouts: Perseus and the circumpolar stars by Oct 17 2006, 9:38 AM EDT for: because I want to
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Change: Renamed from Home by Oct 17 2006, 9:36 AM EDT for: Revised content
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Change: .1a . _Essay: 22. _ _._. __. _5b . 6 7. 7. _The aim here is to give a single coherent account of a very complex issue: how cards evolved and what travelled between teh far east and western Europe, and why. The
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Change: Contact: Diane O'Donovan ....... d_Mindon@yahoo.comThis site republishes a series of essays on the origin and nature of the western card-pack in its two major forms: 52 cards, and the tarot.The essays are drawn from original research, first summarised on a web-page published in 1998-2000 on Geocities. If
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Change: Japan, and Korea but apparently "skipped" Muslim Islam until some centuries later - as few as one-and-a-half-centuries, or as manywhat astravelled fourbetween centuriesteh afterfar theyeast areand knownwestern toEurope, someand inwhy. Europe.D. Mindon (Sepember 2006).
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Change: The aim here is to give a single coherent account of a very complex issue: how cards reached Europe, and China, and Japan, and Korea
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Change: you.e.g. The first person to identify the emblem of the rod with Orion, and offer detailed internal and textual proofs for claiming the pack's "Fool" was meant as the astronomical figure of Orion was Diane O'Donovan, writing as Daana Mindon in 1998, republished in 20072006 on http://daanamindon.wetpaint.com/
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Change: to you.e.g. The first person to identify the emblem of the rod with Orion, and offer detailed internal and textual proofs for claiming the pack's "Fool" was meant as the astronomical figure of Orion was Diane O'Donovan, writing as Daana Mindon in 1998, republished in 2007 on http://daanamindon.wetpaint.com/
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