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TARO of the Four Worlds Steve Nichol s
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Hi story of th e T aro of Four World s '"By ""pl"i'.• enling Ihei,. !dea.. by slall"e.' or Picllll'es, and s o by Ihal ",,'an.. keeping Ihem as illl"i'I'e alive by Ihe mem orioll.' I/"Ophies of Iheir newl'-dying worlhine., s. whereby Iheil' s",,,,eeding p oslel'ily mighl e "idel/lly I"i" 'ei..e whal l"i'sp"clil'C regal'd wa.' had OIld canonised of lhose. ·· Richard Linche, 1599.
The eigh ty-eight images o f this book were already ancient when Linche wrote the above words . This strange taro is part ofthe ' Bible of Thctb.' tracing their roots (for the mOSI part) back 10ancient Egyptian religion and the mists of lime. Thalli (and his priesthood), the inventor of magic, writing and games (including card games such as Tarrochinij intended his wisdom imagery 10 last for all limes, and so engraved icons into stone. or alternatively embod ied them into pastimes and games, such as Senet. The source work (or this taro, from the height of the Italian Renaissance, is the book by Cartari. Vincenzo. (b. ca. 15(0), J.R imagini degli dei degli amichi, Images of the Gods of lhe Ancients.
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7 These engravings were originally made by Bolognino Zaltie ri for the edition ofVicenzo Carlan published by Giordani Zileui at Venice in 1571. Zaltieri was pan of the school of great vcneziani (Tiziane, v cronese. Tintoretto). There are also an excellent, slightly later, set of these illustrations by Hachenburg. my edition is 1614 AD, who formalized the numbering con vention for these images and this taro . Zahieri only actually inscribed number I (Threshold), but his
sequence matches that of Hachenburg. and was probably the source for the latter. An impor tant Latin edi tion was translated by Antoine du Verdier, who also wrote a French translation tha t appeared in 158land was dedicated to Hcnricus Memuues. In 1599, Richard Linchc wrote an (incomplete) English translation of Cartari. The Founlaine of A I1Ilrle..y although he ", .."nl ta ,.i,· ,·. U h"n ,. Ira;ght tire gale.• of rhi . gl'.'" t ...111«' d;l'ine, Open tirc",,'ell'e.' willt .m ndI'DU.' .•·" hll..I;e,., With in I