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Re: The Devil Stands on...

If there are images of the Devil clearly standing on an anvil, I do not have any copies! This, however, does not mean that as concept it is far-fetched, for there are relatively common connections between Smiths and their forges and the Devil - from St Dunstan and the Devil to relatively well-known ...

Re: The Devil Stands on...

I would be hard pressed to disagree with Ross when it comes to documentary sources. With regards to anvils, their continued existence, and hundreds of woodcuts from the period, however, I simply disagree that an anvil has to have the shape that we now consider it to have. Mediæval anvils varied enor...

Re: The ordering of the trumps

[...] 15th century players knew the order, partially by consensus, but mainly because these images were part of popular culture. I remain unconvinced. There is no need to have the earliest games assume that trumps were ranked for play. It may just as easily have been that the last trump trumps, wit...

Re: Tarot was originally based on the Roman Catholic religion.

I have found here: http://www.edizionimartina.com/edizioni_martina/DettagliTesti/316.asp a quote from the "Discorso sopra l'ordine delle figure dei Tarocchi" (Discourse about the order of the Tarot images) written by Francesco Piscina and published in 1565. Of course, it is a "late&q...

Re: The Devil Stands on...

I'm not sure if I ever got it from reading anyone else, but DO recall that it was a combination of the card itself and reading of Hephaestus (and his anvil) that lead me to considering it as far more 'clearly' such. Here is part of a post I made on AT in 2002 (but I have notes for a course I taught ...

Re: Exploring The Magician

Quite so that [...] they would have still been able to see in him as a figure of trickery, deceit and gamester a rogue and a man of vice I do not think that this was ever at issue – quite the contrary, I would have thought, and something with which we are in general agreement. What the above shows i...

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