Huck wrote, As general roles in the Kabbala tree I regard ... Mega Father = 1 Kether Father = 2 Chokmah Mother = 3 Binah Son = 6 Tiphereth Daughter = 9 Yesod Mega Mother = 10 Malkuth ********** The assignments in Kabbalah are very fluid. In the Zohar, Tiphereth is the son/bridegroom and Malkuth the daughter/bride.. Yesod corresponds to the reproductive organs of both genders, but is especially the circumcised phallus. Chokmah corresponds to the Greek Sophia, a feminine personification in several books of the Hebrew Bible, even if Cordovero makes it male and the father - for which there is ..read more

I add this chapter because it is the background for chapter 13, and also because there may be more material in at least one of the sources, one of 1856 Vienna abbreviated KW (see p. 227 below), relating to the Lombard game described by Pratesi in a series of notes reproduced elsewhere on this forum (he mentions this Viennese text in his note at viewtopic.php?p=26565#p26565). ). As background for chapter 13, only the first paragraph below and the description of the specific game starting at the bottom of the first column on p. 227, going to the second column of p. 228, are relevant. For a furth ..read more

This series of four notes on 18th century Lombard publications on the game of tarocchi ends with a translation of "Istruzioni per il gioco milanese di tarocchi (1793-1827)," posted at https://www.naibi.net/A/MILA1827.pdf on August 18, 2023. At this point, too, the translation of Franco's notes on naibi.net starting July of 2023 to the present, and in another thread his Playing-Card articles in Italian since 2018, seems complete, unless I have missed something. That would be 48 notes and 8 articles. There will be more, including a forthcoming Playing-Card article. The note below sums up the pr ..read more

Now I am posting the third in a series of four notes on 18th century books, or rather booklets or sections of almanacs, on playing tarocchi. This one is "Il Giuoco de’ tarocchi ‒ Milano 1789 e 1792," posted July 11, 2023, at https://www.naibi.net/A/MILA178992.pdf. While the book is reputedly 1789, reprinted 1792, that is only by report, by the author in the same book of 1793 that was the subject of Franco's previous note, translated in the post immediately above this one. That book contains extensive quotations from the predecessor books, to which the 1793 author adds his own comments. Again ..read more

This is a translation of Franco's "Per chi tarocca ‒ Milano 1793," posted at https://www.naibi.net/A/MILA1793.pdf on July 10, 2023. It is the second in a series of four, the first translated immediately above this one in this thread. It is one of the two most interesting of them; the other, derived from the same source (although including quotations from a previous book), will follow in a later post. In my previous post I explained the term "rifiuto," ordinarily meaning refusal but in English gaming terminology corresponding to the term "invoke" (as a noun). An invoke or rifiuto is a failure ..read more

Dwtw The 10 pairs on the 10 spheres are the hexagrams that have 3 yang and 3 Yin lines. The three horizontal paths have pairs that are palindromes. The fourth palindrome pair connects to the Crown. The two sides of he Tree are mirror images of each other, i.e., turn the pairs upside down on one side, and they become the pairs on the other side. As the pairs descend from the Crown, they share 2 trigrams between the spheres they connect. The meanings of the hexagrams were not taken into account, only the structure. Litllwtw RLG Statistics: Posted by RLG — Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:15 pm ..read more

Here is one way to do it: G.D. Tree of Life 64 Hexes copy.jpg Your picture .... As general roles in the Kabbala tree I regard ... Mega Father = 1 Kether Father = 2 Chokmah Mother = 3 Binah Son = 6 Tiphereth Daughter = 9 Yesod Mega Mother = 10 Malkuth ********** At the picture Hex. 53/54 is given to the position of Kether (= Mega Father) Hex. 54 is in the I-Ching the "marrying girl". The marrying girl in the role of the Mega Father? The marrying girl let me associate the hex. to 9 Yesod At the picture Hex. 17/18 is given to the position of Malkuth (= Mega Mother) Hex 17 has the name "Nach ..read more

Here is one way to do it: G.D. Tree of Life 64 Hexes copy.jpg Litllwtw RLG 101010 / 010101 .... 10 Malkuth .... 63 - 64 111000 / 000111 .... 1 Kether .... 11 - 12 001110 / 110001 .... 2 Chokmah .... 31 - 41 011100 / 100011 .... 3 Binah .... 32 - 42 I think, there are simple reasons to assume that hexagrams 63 - 64 has relations to Sephirah 10 Malkuth ...... http://trionfi.com/tarot/new-themes/sepher-yetzirah/ Statistics: Posted by Huck — Tue Jul 16, 2024 3:53 am ..read more

I agree with the idea, that there is a mathematical connnection between the "32 ways of wisdom" and the "I-Ching with 64 hexagrams". Dwtw Here is one way to do it: G.D. Tree of Life 64 Hexes copy.jpg Litllwtw RLG Statistics: Posted by RLG — Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:37 pm ..read more

This is an excerpt from chapter 13, designed to be read as a supplement to Franco Pratesi's recent (as of July 2024) notes on 18th century Tarocchi books of Lombardy, considering that the books he deals with do not give an account of the basic rules of play. I include the chapter's introductory section, pp. 258-59, which includes an introduction to the Piedmont game, then his introductory material specifically on Lombardy (p. 270), which he follows immediately with accounts of Lombard tarocchi games, beginning with the four-hand partnership that is assumed in Franco's material (pp. 270-71). C ..read more