Governor of Polo Sticks Art and Meaning Mamluk Turkish Playing Card Deck Fragment Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Mamluk Turkish Playing Card Deck Fragment
Found by Leo Mayer in 1942, this deck provides a crucial link between the patterns of the East and those of the West. It has distilled the Persian/Indian suits down into suits very similar to those used still today in Mediterranean Europe. These are the same suits used in most Tarot decks today.
Provenance
Turkey, c1400.
Tags
polo-sticks-12, governor-of-wands, governor, polo-sticks
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
A dark young man. A friend.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
Reversed
For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Departure, Separation, Disunion
Reversed
Rupture, Discord, Quarrel.
