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An individual practicing spodomancy by making marks in ashes. The marks are then interpreted for meaning, omens, and portents. Spodomancy (also known as tephramancy and tephromancy) is a form of divination by examining cinders, soot, or ashes (Greek: σποδός spodós), particularly although not exclusively from a ritual sacrifice.
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories is a 2023 non-fiction book by Amitav Ghosh. The book arose from research Ghosh conducted on the historical opium trade and its relation to India and China while he was writing his fiction novel series, the Ibis trilogy .
Soot in very low concentrations is capable of darkening surfaces or making particle agglomerates, such as those from ventilation systems, appear black. Soot is the primary cause of "ghosting", the discoloration of walls and ceilings or walls and flooring where they meet.
Though Palisades Symphony Orchestra's performance space, the Lutheran church in Pacific Palisades, was still intact, months of cleaning soot and ridding the smell of smoke lay ahead. The third ...
They were covered in soot and ashes and you could barely see their uniforms,” The Game explains. “Being there and seeing it, I felt so compelled to just stay out there every day. It wasn't ...
and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes--how they twinkled! His dimples, how ...
This album was the band's breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "More", [16] "Bred in the Bone" [17] and "Smoke & Ashes", [18] and led to a spot on The Tragically Hip's Another Roadside Attraction tour. [19] The band also played festivals and toured with Blind Melon, The Watchmen, Moist and The Tea Party. [20]
The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, consisting of the novels Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015). A work of postcolonial literature, the story is set across the Indian Ocean region during the 1830s in the lead-up to the First Opium War.