The four suits represented different social castes, such as the clergy and military.
The transition of Tarot from a 15th-century parlor game to a pillar of modern Western esotericism is a journey of imaginative reinvention. While the cards originated in Renaissance Italy for a game called tarocchini , their "occult" history began nearly 350 years later in Enlightenment-era France. 1. The Myth of Egyptian Origins (1781) A History of the Occult Tarot
The cards were brought to Europe by the Roma people (whom he mistakenly identified as Egyptians or "Gypsies"). The four suits represented different social castes, such