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The Senet Game
The Senet Game Text of Ancient Egypt: A Translation of the Ancient Egyptian Text
The Senet Game Text of Ancient Egypt: A poetic text that describes one of the oldest games known to mankind. The Senet oracle game contains within it the spiritual essence of classical Egyptian culture. The Senet Game Text of Ancient Egypt survives in three copies, one of which is only partial and all of which have lost the last few lines of text. In this book Dr. White describes the contents of the traditional ancient Egyptian Senet Game Board and allows us to get a feeling for how this game related to the spiritual lives of Egyptians. The Game Board eventually was used as an oracle and became one of the earliest ways of playing with the Tarok divination system (also widely known today as the Tarot) to understand situations in life and the trends of the future. Dr. White has reconstructed the design of the Senet Game Board based on the badly damaged surviving
copies and the work of previous Egyptologists, plus his specialized knowledge of the Tarot system. This work includes a transcription of the original hieroglyphic text, an English translation, a detailed commentary and interpretation, a proposed reconstruction of the lost portion of the text, a photograph of the text inscribed on a tomb wall, and Dr. White's tentative reconstruction of the entire Senet Game Board along with its correlation to the major cards of the Tarot deck that has survived into our modern world after passing through several transitional stages.
This is the second little book in this set of Egyptian Classics. It is a short description of the game board used by Egyptians when they played the game of Senet. The game is a symbolic journey through life. The 30 squares on the board are arranged in 3 rows of 10 and form a month with three 10-day weeks. The pictures on surviving boards are somewhat damaged, but careful study of the text reveals the identity of each “day” in the “month”. The “Hero” is Osiris. His mate is Isis. His master is Thoth. Osiris passes through a whole lifetime of experiences, dies, and then is succeeded on the throne by his son Horus. The squares on the board represent the 22 Tarot Trumps plus 8 royal masters.. These masters are the 4 states of matter and the four sensory channels through which we can experience those states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. The ion plasma is highly energized and tends to give off light and heat. We call that “fire”. The other states generalize as solids, liquids, and gasses.
(Printed version available for purchase in Store)
The Cosmic Game: Secrets of the Senet Oracle Board:
The Cosmic Game: Secrets of the Senet Oracle Board is a curious book. Is it science or art? Is it ancient high technology or a madman's fantasy? Is it fiction, or cosmic truth? Is it real or imaginary? Is it an oracle or a game? Is it a spoof, or the long-lost secret key to the universe? You will have to read it and decide. This book and the one below (The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt) are Dr. White's unique gifts to the world, celebrating the wonder of the Internet. You can browse the book online or download the book and explore at your leisure. But be careful. It could change your life in unanticipated ways. Enjoy. You may share copies, but may not sell the work without written arrangement with the author’s estate.
The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt Part 1: A History from Pre-Dynastic Times to the Roman era
(An expanded and completely rewritten version of Dr. White's 2004 book, Thoth and the Tarot: the Amazing Secrets). Dr. White has written a breakthrough book about the early development of the Tarot in which he identifies the man who not only may have designed the first 78-card Tarot deck, but also who probably wrote the first book describing the deck and how to use it. Dr. White describes how this work evolved into an effective educational tool for supporting the legitimacy of pharaohs as the leaders of ancient Egypt and a secret society that shaped the course of the 19th and 20th dynasties during which Egypt dazzled the world with its amazing civilization. The "Da-Rekh" (Tarok) organization continued to clandestinely protect and preserve the knowledge and artifacts associated with their wisdom cult, ensuring in uniquely creative ways that they would last through the dark ages after the fall of Egypt until our day when they might shine again in a new age of enlightenment, planetary in scale. Dr. White also explores and documents the curious ways in which ancient Egyptian culture was transferred through the medium of sacred geometry and spiritual writing by means of special encoding techniques as part of the Kabbalah (Qabalah) technology used by Phoenicians and Hebrews. The process began as early as the Second Intermediate Period and continued into the Roman Era. Updated Version: Oct. 16, 2015.
The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt Part 2: Discussion of the Cards, How to Do Readings, Spreads, and Games
Part II of this 500 page work by Dr. White contains a detailed description of how and why he designed his popular Senet Tarot Oracle Deck of Ancient Egypt in the way he did and includes detailed information about each card as well as samples of how to interpret the cards during readings. He presents his theory of card readings and explores some of the ways by which people from the time of pre-dynastic Egypt down to the Roman Empire may have consulted ingenious Tarot-like oracles. As evidence he produces examples from the archaeological finds of oracle boards and amulets of various different designs that allowed consultations remarkably similar to Tarot readings of today even though they were not carried out with printed cards such as we use in our era. The oracle boards also were calendars and astronomical charts as well as embodiments of sacred geometry, refined art, and the essence of ancient Egyptian wisdom culture. Dr. White demonstrates how the ancient Tarot technology is a wizard's gateway for awakening spiritual awareness, intuition, and a relaxed, abundant lifestyle. He unveils for you a real ancient Egyptian STARGATE Technology recovered from the drifting desert sands. The technology evolved from man's inherent love of games and the discovery that games can accurately model the way the universe functions. Mastery of the game's internal design leads to knowledge of past, present, and future. Every question has an answer. The challenge is how to interpret the information and apply it successfully.
The Senet Tarot
Oracle Deck of Ancient Egypt
Sample Card Images
Dr. White has discovered the origins of the Tarot in ancient Egypt. The 22 Trumps plus the beginnings of the court cards evolved from a game that symbolized the essence of Egyptian culture and became a tool for divination. Through the ancient archetypes one could tap into the deep layers of the mind and uncover hidden beliefs or contradictions that were causing confusion or difficulties in life. Although the Egyptians did not yet number the cards, they eventually expanded the body of archetypes to include profound symbols that were used as amulets. A set of 78 became one of the special systems in use during the New Kingdom. Although the pip cards were not yet organized according to suits in ancient Egypt, Dr. White has identified the primary archetypes and, with the artistic talents of Taiwanese painter Amy Hsiao, has organized the images into a deck that fits our modern standard Tarot pack. Above are a few images from the deck. Cards are the size of a standard Rider-Waite Tarot deck. The deck includes 80 cards -- the 78 standard cards, a "cover" card, and the Min-Mut Divine Lovers from the Temple of Luxor (top row middle card in the above sample illustration). The standard cards are labeled in English and Chinese so they can be used in Asian and Western countries. These are available for purchase in the Store.
More Resources
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Heiroglyphic text of the Senet Game Book
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Senet Tarot Oracle Game Board (painitngs by Amy Hsiao)
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"The Senet Tarot Oracle Game Board and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
An essay by Dr. White.
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"The Eye of Ra and the Golden Pyramid are the Egyptian Book of Changes"
An essay by Dr. White
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Tarot Garden
This is a huge collection of Tarot decks to browse and to purchase
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Aeclectic Tarot
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