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The Chinese believed that mirrors could be used to see into the soul and to predict the future. They would often use mirrors to perform rituals to cleanse the soul and to improve one's luck. For example, one popular ritual involved gazing into a mirror in a dark room and trying to see the reflection of one's future spouse.
Hydromancy may interpret the color, ebb and flow, or ripples of perturbed water. Hydromancy (Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία, water-divination, [1] from ὕδωρ, water, [1] and μαντεία, divination [1]) is a method of divination by means of water, including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. [2]
Far from being a personal cosmetic accessory, mirrors in Mesoamerica were divinatory aids and also formed a part of elite status costume. [5] Mirrors were viewed as metaphors for sacred caves and as conduits for supernatural forces; they were associated with fiery hearths and pools of water because of their bright surfaces.
Scrying, also referred to as "seeing" or "peeping," is a practice rooted in divination and fortune-telling.It involves gazing into a medium, hoping to receive significant messages or visions that could offer personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or inspiration. [1]
Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Jordan River (at least symbolically) in some Christian churches and Mandaeism called Yardena, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism.
Gazing into a mirror while reciting the dhāraṇī, one is to visualize both the image of the deity and the mystic letters that embody her. In time, the small disc-shaped bronze mirrors used for this purpose came to be commonly imprinted, on the back, with the deity's iconic form, according to the canonical description, and, on the front and ...
crystal ball gazing → see scrying; crystal gazing → see scrying; crystallomancy / ˈ k r ɪ s t ə l oʊ m æ n s i / → see scrying (Greek krustallos, ' crystal ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') cubomancy / ˈ k juː b oʊ m æ n s i / → see cleromancy (Greek kubos, ' cube ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') cyathomancy / ˈ s aɪ ə θ oʊ m æ n s ...
The Navajo and Hopi people have long embraced the water underneath and around the Black Mesa area as sacred to their people. The people have long lived around and became dependent on springs and wells of the Black Mesa. These waters are the only source of drinking water, water for livestock, and water for agriculture for the Navajo and Hopi people.