THE M.PS TAROT KARD DECK SUPPLEMENT

The impossible story, written and certain of the origin of an oral tradition, you will read here an option. Before 1450, the history of the tarot is a blank page, a "black hole", thus leaving room for the legend and the sound of those words that have left no trace on the paper ...

we must go back to ancient times ...

Dolmen cathedrals

In that time, man has mastered the language and fire. His intellectual field has grown but still has a share of animal sentience that allows a deep relationship with the forces of nature. This symbiosis becomes sacred science before sinking into the religion. Knowing the forces of Mother Earth led him to identify some areas rich in telluric and cosmic influences. Unmindful of his own habitat, Man devotes extraordinary efforts to mark these locations. This is the time of megalithic constructions, menhirs, dolmens and stone circles. Beyond the admiration of the technical and scientific prowess, modern man is still seized with a strange emotion to these monuments exhale frustrating but powerful odor of sanctity. these ancestors of all the builders of the sacred transmitted orally know their mysterious, updated from generation to generation, through the West and the highways of pilgrimages, the east Mediterranean and beyond, to the whims of the ebb and flow of migration. This sacred science continues across civilizations, recovered from cults and religions, dotting the ancient world of fabulous constructions: Crete, Egypt, Israel, Greece, etc..

Children of Master Jacques

After the fall of the Roman Empire, is the development of Western Christianity. Oratories, churches, cathedrals erected on the same places made ​​sacred by the ancients. Builders have organized themselves into guilds structured and powerful: contractors, fellow masons, carpenters, stonecutters, carvers, who pass on their spiritual message by the use of space, light and color. Among their patrons and financial are the Templars, great spiritual and temporal power of the West.

The End of the Templars

Rivalries can abruptly interrupt this wave of constructive faith. In 1314, on the instructions of King Philip the Fair of France, with the consent of the Papacy, the Grand Masters of the Knights Templar are burned at Paris. The Order is dissolved, the Templars hunted, wealth confiscated. Consequently, the cathedral builders and carvers, who call themselves the Children of Master Jacques, lose their financial support and scattered, pursued by the Inquisition to accuse them because deviationism heretic against the Catholic dogma which has been radicalized. their homelands From the south west and the Pyrenees, Charente, Saintonge, Poitou, Auvergne, they take refuge in the states of Northern Italy, Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany, Piedmont and Savoy. Some migrate further, in Cilicia (Lesser Armenia) where ancestral ties bind with other descendants of the builders of dolmens. Faced with this disaster, master printmakers This raises the question of the transmission of the tradition of sacred knowledge . They choose a priori insoupçonable support, likely through the centuries, beyond languages ​​and writing: 21 + 1 assets of the Tarot. The popularity of these images will distribute and sustainability, without altering the meaning, accessible only to the initiated. Apparently imagers and miniature francs settled in Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), are at the origin of these graphics. Nicknamed the "Saracens" as coming from the East, they arrived in 1375 in Italy, fleeing their country before the advancing Turkish-Ottoman surrender of the last bastions Christians in the Levant.