The Deck of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon
"Picture a deck of Tarot cards. What do you see? Maybe the Magician in his rich red robes, right arm raised high above him. Or the skeleton on horseback for Death. Or maybe you think of The Hermit in grey, holding his lantern, walking with a staff, featured in the artwork for Led Zepplin IV. The funny thing is that those images don’t hail from some ancient text but from one particular deck of cards, a relatively recent one in the life of this medieval form of entertainment: The Rider or Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot ..." (read more)
