Major Arcana · VIIII
L'Hermite
from The Conver Tarot de Marseille, blocks of 1760; this printing c. 1809-1833
A bearded old man in a hooded blue cloak lifts a lantern with one hand and leans on a staff with the other. The card began in Italy as Time carrying an hourglass; the lantern rewrote him as a searcher, and the period spelling keeps an H that modern French dropped.
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