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- Divination bones (Sotho-Tswana languages: ditaola, isiZulu: amathambo) are pieces of bones and vertebrae, carved ivory dice and cowrie shells used for...2 KB (130 words) - 16:04, 27 May 2024
- Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period (c. 1050 –...44 KB (6,067 words) - 14:00, 17 August 2024
- official divinations carried out on behalf of the Late Shang royal family. These divinations took the form of scapulimancy where the oracle bones were exposed...32 KB (3,813 words) - 23:06, 10 August 2024
- Scapulimancy (category Divination)also termed omoplatoscopy or speal bone reading) is the practice of divination by use of scapulae or speal bones (shoulder blades). It is most widely...24 KB (2,935 words) - 11:37, 21 March 2024
- Methods of divination can be found around the world, and many cultures practice the same methods under different names. During the Middle Ages, scholars...61 KB (4,777 words) - 14:51, 25 July 2024
- Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of...40 KB (4,754 words) - 23:04, 13 August 2024
- Pyromancy (category Divination)Pyromancy (Ancient Greek ἐμπυρία (empyria), divination by fire) is the art of divination by means of fire or flames. The word pyromancy is adapted from...6 KB (780 words) - 09:41, 16 August 2024
- Badimo Sangoma contacting the spirits of the Badimo through divination bones...5 KB (592 words) - 23:39, 31 July 2024
- "Senkatana's little boy" and Ditaolane comes from the Sotho-Tswana word for divination bones, ditaola, which he was born with in the legends Before Ditaolane was...3 KB (410 words) - 03:21, 3 June 2024
- not one single technique of casting divination. The practice of casting may be done with small objects, such as bones, cowrie shells, stones, strips of...48 KB (5,517 words) - 03:38, 20 August 2024
- patients through spirit possession by an ancestor, or mediumship, divination bones, or by dream interpretation. In possession states, the sangoma works...54 KB (6,298 words) - 17:25, 20 August 2024
- African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa. Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present...54 KB (6,071 words) - 04:02, 19 July 2024
- Chinese fortune telling (redirect from Divination in Chinese culture)pinyin: Suànmìng; lit. 'fate calculating') has utilized many varying divination techniques throughout the dynastic periods. There are many methods still...38 KB (5,483 words) - 21:32, 20 April 2024
- Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial...44 KB (4,117 words) - 12:20, 7 March 2024
- mechanical load distribution that a bone experiences within long bones such as the femur. As far as short bones are concerned, trabecular alignment has...76 KB (8,829 words) - 02:50, 18 August 2024
- is the divination from a subject's palms as practiced by the Romani (at the time recently arrived in Europe), and scapulimancy is the divination from animal...5 KB (646 words) - 00:29, 4 January 2024
- I Ching (category Chinese books of divination)the divination. Feng Youlan proposed that the word for 'changes' originally meant 'easy', as in a form of divination easier than the oracle bones, but...58 KB (6,129 words) - 00:31, 18 August 2024
- Religion of the Shang dynasty (category Divination)Methods of communication with the spirits consist of inscribed divinations on oracle bones and sacrifice of living beings. The Shang dynasty also had large-scale...102 KB (12,909 words) - 05:15, 23 August 2024
- dictionary. Oracle bones, also known as dragon bones, are pieces of turtle shell or bone used in ancient Chinese divination. Dragon bone(s) may also refer...1 KB (226 words) - 08:56, 29 March 2024
- Astragalomancy (category Divination)the "dice" were usually knucklebones or other small bones of quadrupeds. Marked astragali (talus bones) of sheep and goats are common at Mediterranean and...23 KB (3,034 words) - 23:34, 22 August 2024
- Volume 8 Divination by Northcote Whitridge Thomas 8035311911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8 — DivinationNorthcote Whitridge Thomas DIVINATION, the process
- (ceroscopy). Then there is moleosophy (divination by blemishes), myomancy (divination by rodent behavior), nephomancy (divination by clouds), and of course the
- actually bones, small objects may include cowrie shells, stones, strips of leather, or flat pieces of wood. Some castings are done using sacred divination plates