would the jills replace the jacks or would there be both jacks and jills?
Both jacks and jills.
http://www.halexandria.org/dward447.htm Another highly significant difference between the Tarot and ordinary playing cards is the fact that a Tarot deck consist of 56 cards, and the ordinary playing deck only 52. What is missing are four cards (one of each suit) representing the “Princess” of the royal family. There are, for example, a King, Queen, and Jack in each playing card deck, but no “Jill”. This deletion is likely the result of a patriarchal -- probably church initiated -- influence, wherein the female supposedly has no value other than being a mother.
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward448.htm The Aces, which were uncommonly important in the Tarot’s Minor Arcana, and which represented beginnings, otherwise inexplicably became more important that the royalty of the King, Queen, and Jack. The idea of the “1” card being so important is in any other view, nonsensical. And, of course, there is the missing 14th card of the Minor Arcana in the modern playing deck. For the Tarot had a Princess, a Jill, as part of the royal family. But as the patriarchy claimed more and more power for itself, she disappeared into the night -- in the manner that the “navy” of the (war) chess set, became the “bishop”.
More info here, at site curated by David Galt, my original Jill commissioner:
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/vexhibit/plcards/plcards.html
