Significace of playing cards?

What is the significance of some playing cards? (Like the Queen of Diamonds, or the Queen of Hearts thing.) What are they, and what do they mean...????





Thanks!

Significace of playing cards?
Here is a little bit I know...It is said that the 4 suits represent the seasons and the thirteen cards per suit represent the 13 lunar cycles. When you add the face value of all cards plus one joker, you get 365. (days in the year). As far as the court cards (face cards) are concerned, I pulled this off of wikipedia. jb





King of Spades: David


King of Hearts: Charles (possibly Charlemagne, or Charles VII, where Rachel would then be the pseudonym of his mistress, Agnès Sorel)


King of Diamonds: Julius Caesar


King of Clubs: Alexander the Great





Queen of Spades: Pallas


Queen of Hearts: Judith (i heard Elizabeth of York)


Queen of Diamonds: Rachel (either biblical, historical (see Charles above), or mythical as a corruption of the Celtic Ragnel, relating to Lancelot below)


Queen of Clubs: Argine (possibly an anagram of regina, which is Latin for queen, or perhaps Argea, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus)





Knave of Spades: Ogier the Dane/Holger Danske (a knight of Charlemagne)


Knave of Hearts: La Hire (comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc, and member of Charles VII's court)


Knave of Diamonds: Hector


Knave of Clubs: Judas Maccabeus, or Lancelot
Reply:they are all types of cards and you start with a king[king on spades]and you go down in spades[king,queen,jack,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,... in spades and you do it for all types,or you could play snap with coulers or a king and a king. bye