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Divination (from
Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy') is the
attempt to gain
insight into a
question or
situation by way of an occultic...
- poem by Qu Yuan "Divination", an
episode of the
television series QI "
Divinations", a song by
Mastodon from the 2009
album Crack the Skye Divinization...
- five
periods by Dong Zuobin: The
kings were
involved in
divination in all periods, with
divinations in
later periods done
personally by the king. The extant...
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Methods of
divination can be
found around the world, and many
cultures practice the same
methods under different names.
During the
Middle Ages, scholars...
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observing that
divinations of
various kinds have been
common among all people,
remarks that it is no
argument against different forms of
divination that we cannot...
- pinyin: Suànmìng; lit. 'fate calculating') has
utilized many
varying divination techniques throughout the
dynastic periods.
There are many
methods still...
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communicate with man, and if
divination is
proved to be true, then the gods must exist. He
offers Marcus a
classification of
divinations,
which he says is ancient:...
- the
oldest descriptions of
divination using the Zhou yi. The two
histories describe more than
twenty successful divinations conducted by
professional soothsayers...
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Various forms of
witchcraft and
divination are
mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament),
which are
expressly forbidden. Laws prohibiting...
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Divination bones (Sotho-Tswana languages: ditaola, isiZulu: amathambo) are
pieces of
bones and vertebrae,
carved ivory dice and
cowrie s**** used for...
