Footnotes - Chapter 7

89 Cf. chapter 3.

90 Cf. chapter 1.

91 This is a phrase of the Christian prayer, “Our Father,” as well.

92 Today the circle is divided into 360° and the circle of the Zodiac into 12 parts. Fifteen centuries before Christ the Egyptians already used this system and divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each, to which they added 5 final days, interposed. As for the days, they were divided into two periods of twelve hours. Therefore the Code contained in the staff of the Fool is antecedent to the I century AD and does not contradict the theory which dates the Tarot to the I century AD.

93 A straight-ahead gaze indicates in any case that the personage looks at the Present.

94 As the card is straight up, the man between two women holding his belt has decided to remain faithful. The same symbolism would exist in the case of two men and a woman. For this reason we speak of fidelity or infidelity (when the blade is reversed).

95 Let us remember that we must observe the cards with the eyes of a child, with a gaze simple and without prejudice or superfluity.

96 An expression attributed the Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary figure of the Hellenistic age, equated with Thoth, the Egyptian God of letters, numbers, and geometry.