Swiss Tarot

The Swiss Tarot deck is a 78-card deck used for the tarot card games Troccas and Troggu. It is also sometimes called the JJ Tarot due to the replacement of the usual second and fifth trumps with cards depicting Juno and Jupiter, or as 1JJ Tarot in reference to the catalog number of a common release of the deck by A.G. Müller.^[a]

History

The deck is derived from the Tarot de Besançon, which itself comes from the Tarot of Marseilles.^[1]^[2] It is an Italian suited pack which substitutes the figures of Juno and Jupiter in place of the Popess and Pope of the Tarot of Marseilles. The first version was produced between 1831 and 1838 in the card factory of Johann Georg Rauch. It was the first tarot pack made by the factory and was unexpectedly successful in the American market. The first version was manufactured, unaltered, by his successor, Johannes Müller in Diessenhofen until 1860.^[3]

In 1965 the Swiss card game firm, A.G. Müller, issued a reprint which is distinguished by its cleaner lines. The alternative name for the pack comes from this edition, the "1" simply being a number within the product line and "JJ" the replacement of 2 trumps by Juno and Jupiter (see below).

Cards

The face cards are not double headed and both the trumps and pip cards use additive Roman numeral indexing. The lack of modern features like vertically symmetrical face cards, corner indices, and Arabic numerals has made this deck unpopular for tarot players outside of their native communities. For example, the French-speaking Swiss (Romands) prefer using the Tarot Nouveau to play French tarot. It is still the official deck for Troccas tournaments.

Troccas players use the French-language version but refer to their cards with their Romansh (Rhæto-Romanic) nicknames.^[4] Troggu players use the German version. The names of the trump cards are as follows:

Number	Caption			Rhæto-Romanic
Number	French	German	English	Name(s)	Translation
O	Le Mat	Der Narr	The Fool	il matto	The Fool
I	Le Bateleur	Der Magier	The Magician	il bagat	the shell game player
II	Junon			la gaglina la biua	the chicken the chicken (baby-talk)
III	L'Impératrice	Die Herrscherin	The Empress	l'imperatura	the empress
IIII	L'Empéreur	Der Herrscher	The Emperor	igl imperatur	the emperor
V	Jupiter			il da Cuoz il Diu fauls	the man from Cuoz (a suburb of Disentis) the false God
VI	L'Amoureux	Die Liebenden	The Lovers	ils inamurai	the lovers
VII	Le Chariot	Der Wagen	The Chariot	il carr la Catrina en crotscha	the carriage Catherine's chariot
VIII	La Justice	Gerechtigkeit	Justice	la giustia la stadera	Justice the scales
VIIII	L'Ermite	Der Eremit	The Hermit	il pader	the monk
X	La Roue de Fortune	Rad des Schicksals	Wheel of Fortune	la roda dalla fortuna la ventira	the wheel of Fortune fortune
XI	La Force	Kraft	Strength	la forza	strength
XII	Le Pendu	Der Gehängte	The Hanged Man	il pendiu	the hanged man
XIII	La Mort	Der Tod	Death	la mort	death
XIIII	Tempérance	Die Mässigkeit	Temperance	la tempronza igl aunghel	Temperance the angel
XV	Le Diable	Der Teufel	The Devil	il giavel il da cornas il naucli il bab dallas femnas	the devil the one with the horns the Evil One the Father of Women
XVI	La Maison de Dieu	Der Turm	The Tower	la casa da Diu il tiaratriembel il cametg la Cadi la claustra barschada	the house of God the earthquake lightning the Church the burning monastery
XVII	L'Étoile	Der Stern	The Star	las steilas	the stars
XVIII	La Lune	Der Mond	The Moon	la glina	the moon
XVIIII	Le Soleil	Die Sonne	The Sun	il sulegl	the sun
XX	Le Jugement	Gericht	Judgment	la dertgira ils bluts la giuventetgna	(divine) Judgement the naked ones youth
XXI	Le Monde	Die Welt	The World	il mund la vaca la biala il min il miau la ferma	the world the cow beauty the cat (baby-talk) the cat beauty

Footnotes

^ "Swiss Tarot" is the name recommended by the International Playing-Card Society.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Swiss Tarot at i-p-c-s.org. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
^ Mann, Sylvia (1990). All Cards on the Table. Leinfelden: Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum. pp. 166–168, 172.
^ Ruh, Max (2005) Schaffhauser Spielkarten. Schweizer Pioniere der Wirtschaft und Technik. Verein für wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-909059-32-5, pp 27–31, 52 and 73.
^ McLeod, John. Troccas at pagat.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

External links

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[2] "Swiss Tarot" is the name recommended by the International Playing-Card Society.^[1]

[IPCS-1] Swiss Tarot at i-p-c-s.org. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

[Mann-3] Mann, Sylvia (1990). All Cards on the Table. Leinfelden: Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum. pp. 166–168, 172.

[ruh-4] Ruh, Max (2005) Schaffhauser Spielkarten. Schweizer Pioniere der Wirtschaft und Technik. Verein für wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-909059-32-5, pp 27–31, 52 and 73.

[5] McLeod, John. Troccas at pagat.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

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