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Author : Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004659463
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Mamluk Playing Cards written by Mayer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1971-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bharat Kala Bhavan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ganjifa written by Bharat Kala Bhavan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lon Milo DuQuette
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609257332
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Book Of Ordinary Oracles written by Lon Milo DuQuette and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consulting oracles used to be difficult and dangerous. You had to make a pilgrimage plagued with hardship, trudging through the desert to a holy place or person. Or kill a calf to read its liver or a bird to read its entrails. Or study for years to read ink dropped in water. Who has the time? Traditional methods just aren't convenient today. What's a divine wonderer to do? Funny you should ask. In The Book of Ordinary Oracles, Lon Milo DuQuette shows us how to use items lying around the house--from pocket change to chopsticks--to divine answer to everyday questions. He also tells us how to ask the right question and interpret the answer. The tools he provides will make consulting oracles as easy as reaching into your pocket or cupboard. Can one use channel surfing as an oracle? You bet! DuQuette's anecdotes illustrate various divination techniques. Laugh your way to wisdom while learning new ways to look at the I Ching and how to read tarot cards for yourself.
Author : Ronald Decker
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630838
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Esoteric Tarot written by Ronald Decker and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the Tarot originated in ancient Egypt as a divinatory tool is a romantic misconception. Ron Decker’s meticulous scholarship will surprise practitioners and academics alike, revealing the Tarot’s true evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it. The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or “trump” cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time Decker’s interpretation integrates three whole systems-astrological, arithmological, mystagogical (concerning initiation rites into the Mysteries). His depth of knowledge makes the book a must-have for serious students of Tarot and esotericism
Author : Leo Ary Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mamluk Playing Cards written by Leo Ary Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rudolf von Leyden
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ganjifa written by Rudolf von Leyden and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katalog wydany przy okazji wystawy w Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, 3 marzec - 30 maj 1982.
Author : British Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir H. A. R. Gibb
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia of Islam written by Sir H. A. R. Gibb and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1960 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ishita Banerjee-Dube
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351190490
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book On Modern Indian Sensibilities written by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional–local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and history, senses of events and persons, and productions of the past and the present, the volume unravels intimate expressions of aesthetics and scandals, heroism and martyrdom, and voice and gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between literary cultures and contending nationalisms, culture and cosmopolitanism, temporality and mythology, literature and literacy, history and modernity, and print culture and popular media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large, important region, usually studied in isolation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history, literature, politics, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Parlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Card Games written by David Parlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imported from the Mamluks of Egypt, card games first hit Europe around 1371 and within ten years had spread from Spain and Italy to France and Germany. By 1420, German and Swiss cardmakers were producing packs by the thousands (first by stencil, later by metal engraving) marked with a bewildering array of suits, including hounds, bears, parrots, roses, helmets, banners, and bells. Games proliferated as well, and by 1534, Rabelais could name 35 different card games in Chapter 22 of Gargantua. Today, of course, there are thousands of games, from the universally popular Poker and Contract Bridge, to national manias such as Swiss Jass, German Skat, and French Belote. This is a historical guide to cards in Europe and America. This is not primarily a book of rules or hints on how to play better, but a survey of where the games originated, how they have developed over time, and what their rituals and etiquette tell us about the people who play them.
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1983-12-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659837
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Rogerson's Book of Numbers written by Barnaby Rogerson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogerson's Book of Numbers tells the stories behind our iconic numbers. It is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons and cultural symbols. It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued by the many roles numbers play in folklore and popular culture, in music and poetry, and in the many religions, cultures and belief systems of our world. The stories unfold from millions to zero: from the number of the beast (666) to the seven deadly sins, the twelve signs of the zodiac to the four suits of a pack of cards. Along the way you will discover why Genghis Khan built a city of 108 towers, how Dante forged his Divine Comedy on the number eleven, and why thirteen is so unlucky in the west while fourteen is the number to avoid in China. Now available as a paperback, this is your pocket-book guide to the numerical mysteries of the universe.
Author : Paul Huson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620551837
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Mystical Origins of the Tarot written by Paul Huson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia • Thoroughly examines the original historical source for each tarot card and how the cards’ divinatory meanings evolved from these symbols • Provides authentic 18th- and 19th-century spreads and divination techniques • Reveals the divinatory meanings of the cards as understood by diviners in the Middle Ages and Renaissance The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or India. In 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.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363355
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Author : Helen Farley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788314913
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tarot written by Helen Farley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
Author : Jean-Michel David
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0975712233
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Reading the Marseille Tarot written by Jean-Michel David and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Marseille Tarot: A self-paced tarot course based on the Jean Noblet 1650 Paris deck arose out of course materials written for an online 30-week tarot course.
