MYSTICAL ORIGINS OF THE TAROT: FROM ANCIENT ROOTS TO MODERN USAGE
Book ID/图书代码： 06568004B06291
English Summary/英文概要： Mystical Origins of the Tarot, Paul Huson has expertly tracked each symbol of the Minor Arcana to roots in ancient Persia and the Major Arcana Trump card images to the medieval world of mystery, miracle, and morality plays. A number of tarot historians have questioned the use of the tarot as a divination tool prior to the 18th century. But the author demonstrates that the symbolic meanings of the Major Arcana were evident from the time they were first employed in the mid-15th century in the popular divination practice of sortilege. He also reveals how the identities of the court cards in the Minor Arcana were derived from a blend of pagan and medieval sources that strongly influenced their interpretation in tarot divination.
Mystical Origins of the Tarot provides a thorough examination of the original historical source for each card and how the cards’ divinatory meanings evolved from these symbols. Huson also provides concise and practical card-reading methods designed by the cartomancers of the 18th and 19th centuries and reveals the origins of the card interpretations promoted by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and A. E. Waite.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 由于年代久远，塔罗牌的起源消失在迷雾之中。大部分学者猜测它起源于中国，埃及或印度。但作者认为，某些符号起源于古代波斯，另一些形象则起源于中世纪的神秘游戏。不少研究人员怀疑18世纪以前塔罗牌曾用于占卜预测，但作者则认为早在15世纪中期塔罗牌就被用于抽签预测。作者在书中详细检验了每一张牌的历史源头和这些符号的预测含义的演变过程，并提供了一套简明实用的解读牌义的方法。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Huson研究塔罗牌已有40多年的历史。他写过“掌握巫术”和“塔罗牌完整指南”等书。
PAUL HUSON has been a student of the tarot for over forty years. He received initial esoteric training from the Society of the Inner Light in London and he later studied the methods of the Order of the Golden Dawn. He is the author of Mastering Witchcraft and The Devil’s Picturebook: The Compleat Guide to Tarot Cards. He lives in Los Angeles.
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