Figure 1. Tablet of Cebes British Museum

Figure 2. Table of Cebes. Jan Sons

B. Next Easier Identities in Squares

5,2. To the right of the Queen on the Throne (3) is a person holding out the hand to bless another to his left. To the left is also a group of ladies, one of whom raised her hand. These would be the "5 Hierophant" and "2 High Priestess" of the Tarot.
6. To the right of "5 Hierophant" are a lady and a man. They are the Tarot's "6 Lovers".
11. The lady standing at the gate would be the Tarot "11 Justice".
12. The man left of the lady would be "12 Hanged Man". The man would be judged by "11 Justice" but is not shown upside down as like in the Tarot "12 Hanged Man'.
13. Next right are a group of seated people, apparently in mourning. This would be represented by "13 Death" in the Tarot. In the Jan Sons 1548-1611 version, image is that of a dead person lying on the ground.
14. The next group of people to the right would be the Tarot's "14 Temperance". 16. Here there is a figure with outstretched arms, as if falling. This is equivalent to the Tarot's "16 Tower".
In the Jan Sons 1548-1611 version, a tower could be seen left of the people trying to climb
20.Right at the top is a man kneeling before a seated person. This would be the Tarot's "20 Judgment".

C. Tentative Identifications in Triangles

About 16 images can be identified as associated with imagery of the Tarot. The rest may tentatively interpreted as follows:

15. The Devil would be the standing person lecturing to a group of people.
9. There is a man sitting with crossed legs., This would be the Tarot "9 Hermit" in meditation.
18, 19. These are like the Tarot's "18 Moon" and "19 Sun".
7,8. The figures here are fighting each other. They are like the Tarot's "7 Chariot of War" and "8 Strength".

Jan Sons 1548-1611 Cebes Tablet

The Jan Sons 1548-1611 version (Figure 2) also have numbers corresponding to almost all the Tarot Major Arcanas.

Conclusions

For centuries, scholars are puzzled oiver the origins of the Tarot.

We have penetrated quite deeply into the origins of Tarot. The connections between the Tarot Major Arcanas and the Tablet of Cebes were not discussed in Aleister Crowley's Egyptian Tarot Book of Thoth, Eliphas Levi's Sanctun Regum, Golden Dawn Tarot and the Tarot of Bohemians.

During medieval periods, there were a number of versions of the Tablet of Cebes. There is no doubt that Tarot makers of the 14th and 15th centuries took, in a very large portion, several imagery from the extant several versions of Tablet of Cebes. One may see that the Tarot Major Arcanas are almost completely from the Tablet of Cebes.

Still, the origins went back further than AD 100-200, as Cebes was a companion of Socrates in the 400-500 BC. That is, the Tarot Major Arcanas have Hellenistic origins as far back as 500 BC!

No one ancient culture was the sole source of Tarot. As stated in earlier articles, the original Tarot makers were Universalists and took reverently from various different ancient cultures. Tarot depicts an ill-understood spiritual journey of life!.

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