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The History of Playing Cards
The Deck
The Deck
The Deck
The four suits in playing cards, clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, collectively represent the four elements (wind, fire, water, and earth), the seasons, and cardinal directions. They represent the struggle of opposing forces for victory in life. The thirteen cards in each suit represent the thirteen lunar months. Playing cards originated in Central Asia, and they were introduced into European culture in the 14th century.
Spades
The Deck
The Deck
The spade represents a leaf of the "cosmic" tree, and thus life. Along with its companion suit, clubs, spades represent fall and winter and the power of darkness. In the Tarot, they symbolize intellect, action, air, and death.
Hearts
The Deck
Hearts
Hearts represent the warmth of spring and summer seasons and the power of light. They are the center of life and the world. In the Tarot, hearts can also symbolize knowledge, love, life from water, and fertility, and in fortune-telling, joy.
Clubs
Diamonds
Hearts
Otherwise known as trefoils, clubs represent many things: fall, winter, night, darkness, males, fire, energy, will, wealth, work, luck, and happiness.
Diamonds
Diamonds
Diamonds
Diamonds represent warmth, light, femininity. In the Tarot, they symbolize earthly matter, money, courage, and energy, but fortune-tellers often associate diamonds with spitefulness and annoyance.
Who Were The Lydians?
The Lydians Invented Coins & Money
Herodotus states that the Lydians "were the first men whom we know who coined and used gold and silver currency".[5] While this specifically refers to coinage in electrum, some numismatists think that coinage per se arose in Lydia.[6] He also states that during the kingship of Croesus, there was no other Asia Minor ethnos braver and more militant than the Lydians
Source: [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydians ]
