Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of...
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Look up divination in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized...
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I Ching (category Chinese books of divination)
is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western...
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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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Black magic (redirect from Black divination)
from 1200 to approximately 1500, (Latin: niger, black; Greek: μαντεία, divination), broadly "one skilled in the black arts". In a modern context, the line...
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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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Geomancy (redirect from Geomantic divination)
Geomancy translates literally to "earth divination," and the term was originally used to mean methods of divination that interpret geographic features, markings...
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is sought by the believer also through consultation of divinities or divination. Traditional African religions embrace natural phenomena – ebb and tide...
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Oracle bone (redirect from Bone divination)
scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period (c. 1050 – c. 1250 BCE) in ancient China...
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I Ching divination is a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching. The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken)...
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Ifá (redirect from Ifa divination)
Ifá or Fá is a divination system originating from West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people although is also practised...
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Tarot card reading (redirect from Tarot (divination))
Tantra, or the I Ching have been frequently repeated by authors on card divination. However, scholarly research reveals that, having been invented in Italy...
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Islam and magic (redirect from Islam and divination)
alter the course of events usually by calling on a supernatural force), divination (attempts "to predict future events or gain information about things unseen")...
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Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial...
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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...
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On Divination in Sleep (or On Prophesying by Dreams; Greek: Περὶ τῆς καθ᾽ ὕπνον μαντικῆς; Latin: De divinatione per somnum) is a text by Aristotle in which...
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Poe divination (/pu̯e/, from the Hokkien Chinese: 跋桮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poa̍h-poe, Min Dong BUC: buăk-bŭi, 'cast moon blocks', also written bwa bwei, Mandarin...
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Bu Ju (redirect from Divination (poem))
Bu Ju (Chinese: 卜居; pinyin: Bǔ Jū; English: Divination) is a short work anthologized in the Chu Ci (楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes called The Songs of the...
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Kuba Divination is a form of divination used by the Kuba people of central Africa. Kuba divination is practiced by specialists called ngwoom. According...
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Runic magic (redirect from Runic divination)
contemporary adherents of Germanic Neopaganism. Modern systems of runic divination are based on Hermeticism, classical Occultism, and the I Ching. Historically...
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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...
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Mo (Tibetan: མོ་, Wylie: mo), is a form of divination that is part of the culture and religion of Tibet. The Tibetan people consult Mo when making important...
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Fortune-telling (category Divination)
telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of...
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Omen (redirect from Portent (divination))
7th century BC. Omens were interpreted by several methods—e.g., liver divination, lecanomancy, and libanomancy. Hepatoscopy—observing irregularities and...
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African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa. Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present...
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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...
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in tarot card games as well as in divination. The card typically depicts the Grim Reaper, and when used for divination is often interpreted as signifying...
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history and meaning, leading to the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy. Thus, there are two distinct types...
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Necromancy (category Divination)
summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge...
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Mesopotamian divination was divination within the Mesopotamian period. Perceptual elements utilized in the practice of a divinatory technique included...
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