Tarot
Last updated: Tuesday, 02 July 2024
78 cards, divided into Major and Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is divided into four suits (Cups, Wands, Swords, and Pentacles), each containing 14 cards. The cards’ imagery depicts a journey of growth, combining symbol and allegory.
Shuffling and drawing from a deck of cards.
An embodied, haptic ritual interface? A context for sorting and processing information? A modular configuration? Purposive inquiry.
Tarot cards originated in 15th century Italy as a card game called tarocchi. In the late 18th century, French occultists started claiming the cards had esoteric Egyptian origins, and could be used for divination.
Different systems, traditions, illustrations. A particular type of cartomancy.
- [⎈] Investigate the role of tarot in popular culture and its portrayal in literature, film, art and music. How has this changed over time?
- [&] See also: combinatorics?
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