micahcmiracle on Nostr: I agree. Mostly. Yes about the Olympics. No about Egyptian tarot. Playing cards from ...

I agree. Mostly. Yes about the Olympics. No about Egyptian tarot.

Playing cards from China made their way to Egypt before being adapted.

There is no evidence these cards were used to divine.

The decks from Egypt made their way to Europe in the late 1300s.

The Italians added Major Arcana, adding religious significance to them, like images of the pope, etc.... but these still were not used to divine.

The first written use of the cards being used to divine was from Spain in the 1400s.

Dividing with cards became a European folk hit for several hundred years before the French first developed a manual on divinatiry messages and created the first tarot deck. This was in the 1700s.