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	Divination
		Divination is often dismissed by skeptics as being mere superstition.
		Divination is a universal cultural phenomenon which anthropologists have observed as being present in virtually all religions and cultures in all ages up to the present day.
		Strictly speaking, divination assumes the influence of some supernatural force or fate, whereas scientific predictions are made from an essentially mechanical, impersonal world-view and rely on empirical laws of nature.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Divination.html (442 words)

	Fate Manipulation
		The shells and bones themselves, it was discovered, were instruments used by the kings of ancient China to consult the gods and the ancestors and to foretell the future.
		The bones were lost in the ruins of the Shang capital, which crumbled into ruins, and was buried and forgotten.
		Knowledge of the bones and their use passed out of human ken, to be rediscovered in the dying years of the Chinese empire in late 19th century.
	www.earnshaw.com /fate_manipulation/fate03.html (4320 words)

	:: N G O M A :: - Traditional Healing in South Africa
		The diviner candidate (umkhwetha) is also afflicted with a condition called intwaso, a technical term derived from the verb ukuthwasa which refers to the process of gradually becoming or emerging as a diviner, involving various symptoms which do not necessarily refer to disease or illness as defined in western medical science.
		The diviners role may thus be a culturally endorsed strategy or therapeutic means for allowing psychically gifted individuals or individuals facing a spiritual emergency to come to know and heal themselves, express their ecstatic nature and to heal others-which is the ultimate purpose of any diviner.
		Divination appears to differ among cultural groups in certain aspects such as in the degree of spirit intervention and the types of spirits being involved, as well as in the methods of divination (mechanistic e.g.
	www.wits.ac.za /izangoma/part2.asp (4454 words)

	Divination by chicken bones
		Divination follows the sacrifice of the bird and is considered a minor ritual.
		When the right bone indicates good, it means that we will have good fortune and be lucky, but if the right side bone indicates bad, it means that we may meet with poor fortune and bad luck.
		Divining with chicken bones is just one fascinating aspect of Kammu culture, a dying and almost forgotten society.
	www.ling.lu.se /persons/Damrong/divination.html (2662 words)

	CASTING BONES: The Art of Divination
		Traditionally Shamans threw the bones, (sometimes beans or stones are employed) into the air or on the ground, usually into a specially drawn or marked off circle, and observed how the bones landed and what configurations they formed after landing.
		No one is certain when or how bones came to be used to divine the future, cast spells, or influence the outcome of events.
		Although tossing or throwing bones is an extremely archaic divination technique, their use was not recorded by Europeans until the 1600s.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/bones.html (2943 words)

	Yuan Heng Li Zhen - Page 2 - I Ching Community
		Similarly, if you exclude alternative forms of the same characters, about 3,500 characters have been recorded on the oracle bones, but only 1,200 to 1,500 have been deciphered clearly enough to win general acceptance among "jiaguwen" scholars (jiaguwen is short for guijia shougu wenzi, "turtle shell and animal bone script").
		Ah, but whether there is agreement on the meaning of oracle bone glyphs or not, there are nonetheless striking similarities between oracle bone inscriptions and the text of the Zhouyi.
		I think it would be amazing if two divination sources, the OBI and the Yijing, composed at roughly the same time (remember most of the bones are late Shang) in the same rough linguistic and cultural area did not share some, even many, similarities.
	www.onlineclarity.co.uk /friends/showthread.php?p=35308#post35308 (3464 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Divination bones can be forcibly attuned to have a tendency to make BAD predictions by mistreating them, rolling/throwing them without having an observation in your prediction pool, and generally disrespecting them.
		Example of Dark Bone Usage: Imagine, if you will, a Barbarian that attacks you every time he sees you..Locate him, prepare an offense observation, run into whatever area he happens to be in, and inflict a (hopefully) bad prediction on his offensive skills.
		RUB your bones to change the rune depicting which skillset you are trying to predict for.
	members.lycos.co.uk /ymrek/bones.htm (842 words)

	Divination as medical technology in Southern Africa
		In most cases the diviner is also the one who offers the therapy, differing in details according to the medico-religious sub-system in which the diviner has specialised; three major sub-systems are pragmatic herbalism, sangoma-hood (involving dancing, drumming and trance in praise of the diviner’s ancestors), and Independent Christian churches.
		The divination apparatus is a machine for generating an unlimited number of different stories: stories at least one of which contains meaning and revelation for the client — a directly applicable poem written under specific reference to the client’s live and problems.
		Many clients come to the diviner with problems deriving from the ‘modern’ sphere; it is these problems which may cause the clients particular anxiety and bitterness, and for which particular revelation, reconciliation and hope are sought.
	www.shikanda.net /african_religion/techno.htm (6584 words)

	Shang Dynasty China: Divination by Tortoise Shell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shang diviners selected bones (mostly the shoulder bones of domestic cattle and water buffalo), polished them, and made rows of grooves and pits on each piece.
		When divination was made, heat was applied to this worked underside; cracks appeared on the upper side of the shell; the pattern of these cracks was then interpreted, answering a question posed before the shell was heated.
		Shells and bones have been found with notations incised on with a knife, listing question and answer, plus a later notation on whether the answer proved itself true.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/ShangDivination.htm (339 words)

	Chinese History - Shang Dynasty å• literature and philosophy (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Inserting a hot bronze stick into a hole drilled into the surface of the bones, the diviners were able to tell the future by interpreting the emerged cracks.
		The Shang diviners told the future of sacrifices, military campaigns, tribute payments, hunting expeditions, settlement building, weather, sickness, agriculture and childbirth, that is almost every aspect of the daily routine.
		The first task of the diviner after the divination had taken place was to incise the sequential number of the burning spots (crack numbers, xushu åºæ•¸) of the whole divination set (chengtao æå¥—), in turtle shells normally alternating between two parallel rows on the surface, in other, lengthy bones from top to bottom.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Myth/shang-literature.html (1288 words)

	Galileo Educational Network Association
		The 5th day would be unlucky, and so the hunting party would have to be back home before the 5th.
		The writing was on bone - usually the shell of a turtle (below left) or the scapula of a bull, cow, or other large animal (below right).
		They were concerned with the outcomes of divinations like the one above in which an ancestor was asked about the future.
	www.galileo.org /math/puzzles/BoneCrackDivination.html (283 words)

	Plutschow - Chinese Sacrificial Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These oracle bones were shoulder bones of oxen (also of goat and sheep) and, later, turtle plastron onto which, either before or after divination, the diviners inscribed the divinatory questions addressed to mostly ancestral but also a number of nature deities.
		These bones were heated to obtain a pair of cracks consisting of a vertical line plus, at about mid-point, a perpendicular line, corresponding to the present Chinese character meaning 'divination' or 'question to a deity'.
		Oracle-bone divination was the domain of royal officials under the political control of the kings and not of the shamans.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap0102/china.htm (8302 words)

	Information on Divination Bones
		Divination bones are tools that allow Moon Mages to predict the future, without using the 'vision' method.
		The origins of divination bones can be traced back to the Nomads of the Arid Steppe sect.
		The plus side is that you can lend your bones to another Moon Mage and he/she can use them, though I doubt anyone keeps a set of un-attuned bones so they can let others borrow them.
	members.cox.net /eldrad/Bones.html (662 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bone Divination: Where the shoulder bone of a reindeer is heated until it cracks.
		Drum Divination: Symbols of animals are decorated onto the drum and a ring is placed on it.
		the drum is then beaten and when the ring comes to a rest, a divination is obtained from the symbol of where the ring landed.
	www.angelfire.com /pa3/aml/innua.html (122 words)

	Sternomancy
		From the Greek sternon (meaning the chest) it is the art and practice of divination by the breast bone of beast or man, often victims of sacrifice.
		On the method using the sternum bone, its size and shape are taken into consideration, as is the way in which the bone burns when placed into the fire.
		If you are looking for an accurate form of divination that is very easy to use this book could teach you a lot and is simple enough that if you have no prior information in the occult you will still have no problem learning it.
	www.occultopedia.com /s/sternomancy.htm (3202 words)

	Divination Bones
		Divination bones are the favored prediction tool of the Nomads of the Arid Steppe for predicting the future.
		Divination bones are one of the five tools Moon Mages can use to predict the future.
		Gazing intently at the boar bones you brace yourself and finish carving the weapon symbols across the various facets then roll the completed Moon Sphere in your fingers to check its balance.
	members.cox.net /eldrad/Divination.html (1127 words)

	Southern African divination: connections in space and time
		All these sixteen configurations have been recognised and named, each has its standard praise which the diviner may utter as a first reaction to the fall, and each is interpreted according to a complex, conventionalised yet unwritten catalogue which the diviner has learned by heart in the course of his or her years of training.
		A divination session consists normally of a series of twenty to forty throws, interlaced with questions and commentaries by both diviner and client; under the diviner’s skilful management, the series of falls present an unfolding, revealing story of which the client is the protagonist.
		Four-tablet divination, with similar tablets (although differing in details of marking, shape and material used), with identical or kindred names for the tablets and for the configurations which they form, with identical mathematical properties, and with interpretative catalogues which broadly converge, have been described for many parts of Southern Africa.
	www.shikanda.net /african_religion/trans.htm (5875 words)

	Congolese DIVINATION
		Divination in the relevant population is directed towards the past and comes down, essentially, to necromancy.
		Divination by Ordeal: trial by poison and by red hot iron, trial by boiling oil, trial by eye, purifying water or water from a cadaver's ablution, trial by jumping on a fire or a cord, by stepping over a crucifix or a cross drawn on the ground.
		Divination by means of a trance or possession by a deceased's shade.
	www.ceeba.at /rit/Ritualsdivination.htm (6126 words)

	bone divination
		A brief overview of bone divination, from the British Astrological and Psychic Society.
		divination performer first drilled holes on tortoise shell or a piece of bull scapula, then put it over fire.
		Runes were widely used in divination and have been inscribed on amulets, such talismans were primarily concerned...
	www.jyotishvani.com /astrology-horoscope/bone-divination.asp (474 words)

	Feng Shui Divination Qi Men Dun Jia
		These divination methods are used to discern both good and bad luck in relation to time and space (direction).
		Tai Yee is used to divine events that affect societies, such as earthquake, weather effects like hurricanes, massacres, natural disasters, etc. Qi Men is generally used for military action but, can be applied to competitive environments in making the right strategic decision in ever-changing situations.
		Any divination process, whatever forms they assume, are models set up to imitate the social society, nature and the universe, etc. Dunjia is a mathematical and physical model set up to incorporate Heavenly, Earth, Human and unexpected aspects, as well as time and space or directional elements.
	www.feng-shui-institute.org /fengshuidivination.htm (4028 words)

	Psychic reading, tarot reading, oracle, marriage counseling, psychic medium,psychic phone reading, online psychic ...
		Her divining, channelling and intuition are enhanced by the medium of Tarot card readings, the ancient ritual of throwing the bones and her esoteric knowledge of astrology.
		Her prophecies are channeled from intuition and the spiritual guidance of the ancestors.With this mystical medium and her own psychic powers of fortune-telling, her magic rituals enable this shamaan to read the enchanted signs and to guide you on your journey towards wisdom and enlightenment.
		Shani (diviner / witchdoctor) is the most esteemed 'all seeing one' and tribal mother in action.
	www.bonethrower.com (355 words)

	Reading the Bones - Aeclectic Tarot Forum
		I remember once going to a psychic fair and there was a lady throwing bones, shells, crystals, beads etc and used a wooden wand with a crystal at the end...
		I know the south african web site thingy is www.iafrica.com, actually come to think of it i have a metaphysical directory of south africa i will go hunting in there for you and if i find something that may be a lead i will post it for you some time during the week...
		I've got a near full raccoon skeleton, partial deer skeleton including knuckle bones and the spinal disks between the vertebra, and the ribs and backbone of a skunk----all found while out walking in the woods the past two years.
	www.tarotforum.net /showthread.php?t=7836 (1244 words)

	diversesoterisma.htm,horoscope 2002,chinese Astrology,free tarots,,compatibility,
		African Bones - A brief overview of bone divination, from the British Astrological and Psychic Society.
		African Divination: The Wisdom of Africa - Dagara Cosmological Wheel - Overview of the use of this wheel, used by the Dagara tribe of West Central Africa.
		Anthropological Studies of Divination: Spider Divination - Presents a simulation by Michael D. Fischer of the Mambila system of nggàm 'spider divination'.
	www.destinyoo.co.uk /diversesoterisma.htm (941 words)

	Asian 212 Example: Divination by Asia Blog
		First, looking at the oracle bones, imagine that you had to recreate a picture of the Shang from the information extractable from oracle bone inscriptions.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 at 7:40 pm and is tagged with oracle bones, oracle bone, radical change, hexagram, auspicious, coin toss, snow tomorrow, shang, peeling, superbowl, divination, disbelief, seahawks, inscriptions, reeds, suspend, obstacles, and confusing.
		A few people who paid attention to divination suggested that there is a...
	asia.elliottback.com /archives/2006/02/02/asian-212-example-divination (529 words)

	Divination - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Divination : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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	www.onelook.com /?w=Divination&ls=a (266 words)

	Trexle - Divination
		Divination - Methods and history of a variety of divination and scrying techniques.
		Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination - Metropolitan Museum of Art presents links to exhibit descriptions, essays on Afriacan divination, glossary of terms and bibliography.
		A Glossary Of Divination - Offers an A-Z of lesser known divination techniques, with single line definitions of each.
	trexle.com /Directory/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Divination (356 words)

	Divination by the Speal or Blade Bone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pennant gives an account of another sort of divination used in Scotland, called Sleina-nachd, or reading the speal-bone, or the blade-bone of a shoulder of mutton, well scraped (Shaw says picked; no iron must touch it).
		They have a similar divination by the bone of a sheep, Hanway tells us, in Persia.
		Grey annotates upon Shakespeare that the country-fellows were wont in days long gone by to try whether they should succeed with their mistresses by carrying the flowers of this plant in their pockets, and that the prospect of good or bad luck was determined by the fact of their growing or not there.
	www.sacredspiral.com /Database/scry/bladebone.html (622 words)

	Bone China rel= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Beverly Clark's WeddingLocation.com : Anaheim Golf Course Location...Your table will be beautifully set with our bone china and glassware, stylish folded napkins, and if you choose, you are welcome to use our mirror tiles and...www.weddinglocation.com/page.phtml?lid=82&pageNum=...
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		Bird Flu Outbreak in Indonesia - OhmyNews InternationalIn two regions of South Sulawesi, Bone and Sinjai, the number of chickens who died from the flu...
	www.bunkhouse.ca /?Category=Bone+China+rel= (307 words)

	Reading Questions for Sources of Chinese Tradition, chs. 1-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		How was oracle bone divination related to the origins of history?
		What continuities and/or discontinuities are there between the Classics and Shang oracle bone divination?
		Explain the notion of tianming, and its significance to ancient Chinese political culture and the religious and cultural beliefs intrinsic to it.
	core.ecu.edu /hist/tuckerjo/SCT-1-2.htm (166 words)

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