Path: kudonet.com!news.scruz.net!garlic.com!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news.leonardo.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.177.172.254!news.eden.com!not-for-mail From: "J. Karlin" Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.pagan,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage,alt.tarot Subject: Re: Pope Joan (was Re: ORIGINS OF LUCIFER AND SATAN) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:16:49 +0000 Organization: Adhesive Media, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <332E3347.46EC@eden.com> References: <5fsmev$2il$1@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu> <332C78D3.5208@nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net-2-074.austin.eden.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: kudonet.com alt.magick.tyagi:8881 alt.magick:80135 alt.pagan:164039 talk.religion.misc:230563 talk.religion.newage:56428 alt.tarot:12925 Lainie Petersen wrote: > The idea that the Female Pope/Papesse/High Priestess card has > connections to Pope Joan has recently been challenged by Barbara Newman > in her book "From Virile Women to WomanChrist". She argues that the > Female Pope/High Priestess card has its source in a heretical sect that > was patronized by the Visconti family. If anyone is interested, I will > dig out the book and give a more accurate report. Gertrude Moakley offered the best refutation of this 'connection' 30 years ago in her book on the Visconti-Sforza tarocchi and it sounds as if Newman is just repeating this same information. (jk)