The name "Tarot" came from the Egyptian words “tar”, meaning "royal", and “ro”, meaning "road"
and that the Tarot therefore represented a "Royal Road" to wisdom.
The symbolism of the Tarot de Marseille represents the mysteries of Isis and Thoth.
Carl Jung was the first psychoanalyst to attach importance to tarot symbolism.
He had regarded the tarot cards as representing archetypes:
fundamental types of persons or situations embedded in the collective unconscious of all human beings.