Talk:Tarot History

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I have made a few minor edits in the interests of neutrality. I haven't changed any content, but rather changed the way some sentences are worded, for example I removed the quotes the author placed around the words/phrases "personal growth" and "archetypes," which might have been construed to express that there is something suspect about these ideas. I also added a few qualifiers to avoid overgeneralizations of tarot enthusiasts as New Age or neo-Pagan, or as uninformed about factual Tarot history. I was initially reluctant to make these edits but I took to heart the encouragement in the guidelines to be bold.  :) Lee Bursten 06:35, 3 February 2006 (PST)

A Note: Michael J. Hurst has kindly written the initial summaries on this page. This is an excellent start to build other pages off of, and I wanted to leave a quick note to thank him for the contribution.
JMD and I have broken down the section into three levels... This page being the Main Tarot History Page, with links to Timeline pages, and then from there, links from items in the timeline to new pages. Hopefully this will allow the top levels to remain fairly "uncluttered", and allow users to dig into the subjects they are seeking more easily.
Any suggestions always welcome.
le pendu 19:35, 1 February 2006 (PST)

[edit] Myths and stuff

Note by baba: Can I suggest that it might be useful to append a section on "tarot history myths". I came across yet another reference to tarot being brought into Europe by gypsies the other day - these beliefs, about Egypt, gypsies, Knights Templar and Fifi the pink poodle (nod of course to Villa Revak - although there is fierce debate about whether Fifi was in fact a poodle or a rottweiler cross) do keep coming up. It might be good to address them in their own section?


Thank you Baba - not sure how to best address this one... perhaps an article on 'frequently perpetuated misinformation'??? any suggestions for a more decent title?
on another note, I have evidence that Fifi is in fact a poodle-cross (or rather 'caniche'-cross), though the crossing may be with a Maltese (resulting in what I believe is called a 'Moodle') --Jmd 06:47, 11 February 2006 (PST)

[edit] Dionysiac tarot (in french)

New theory for the origins of tarot : http://www.bacchos.org/tarothtm

but in french... to translate

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