Saturday, January 13, 2024

The original meaning of playing cards

Original meaning of a deck of playing cards: 52 cards for 52 weeks in the year. 

2 colours for day and night. 4 suits for the 4 seasons and 13 weeks per season. 

Twelve court cards representing the 12 months. 

If we add each of the cards (ace + ace + ace + two + two + three + three + seven + eight … and etc.) of the game, we will get 364. 

The card game is an agricultural calendar that told us about the weeks and the seasons. With each new season, it was King's week, followed by Queen's week, Jack's and so on until AS week changed seasons and we started over with a new color. Jokers were used in leap year. 


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