Divination bones (Sotho-Tswana languages: ditaola, isiZulu: amathambo) are pieces of bones and vertebrae, carved ivory dice and cowrie shells used for...

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. 1250 –...

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...

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...

China, with these bones later being referred to as oracle bones. In Japan, turtle shells would also be used as a ritualistic divination technique. In Tibet...

Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of...

Methods of divination can be found around the world, and many cultures practice the same methods under different names. During the Middle Ages, scholars...

Badimo Sangoma contacting the spirits of the Badimo through divination bones...

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...

"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...

patients through spirit possession by an ancestor, or mediumship, divination bones, or by dream interpretation. In possession states, the sangoma works...

the "dice" were usually knucklebones or other small bones of quadrupeds. Marked astragali (talus bones) of sheep and goats are common at Mediterranean and...

pinyin: Suànmìng; lit. 'fate calculating') has utilized many varying divination techniques throughout the dynastic periods. There are many methods still...

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...

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...

mechanical load distribution that a bone experiences within long bones such as the femur. As far as short bones are concerned, trabecular alignment has...

African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa. Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present...

Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial...

surrounding divination by means of a goose's wishbone go back to at least the Late Medieval Period. Johannes Hartlieb in 1455 recorded the divination of weather...

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)...

stone, bone, and ceramic artefacts have been found. The Anyang site has yielded the earliest known body of Chinese writing, mostly divinations inscribed...

gods. Methods of communication with the spirits consist of divinations inscribed on oracle bones and sacrifice of living beings. The Shang also built large...

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...

Umar H. D. Danfulani writes that the integration of Arabic divination into indigenous divination is "clearly demonstrated" in Madagascar, where the Arabic...

telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of...

Astragalomancy, a form of divination using talus bones Knucklebones, a dice game using astragali Shagai, sheep or goat talus bones used for gaming Squatting...

summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge...

Most Shang writing takes the form of inscriptions on oracle bones used for divinations on behalf of the king. Shang ritual focussed on offerings to ancestors...

goat. The bones are collected and used for traditional games and fortune-telling throughout Central Asia, and games involving the ankle bones may also...

have been a way of imitating and disguising oneself from the aos sí. Divination was also a big part of the festival and often involved nuts and apples...