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The art of geomancy was one of the more popular forms of divination practiced during the Renaissance. It is a form of divination in which any question may be answered by casting sand, stone, or dirt on the ground and reading the shapes, using tables of geomantic figures for interpretation.
The Principles of Astrological Geomancy. ISBN 0-89254-101-6. Skinner, S. (1980). Terrestrial Astrology. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ISBN 0-7100-0553-9. Medieval and Renaissance works Gerard of Cremona. On Astrological Geomancy. Henry Cornelius Agrippa. Of Geomancy (English translation of the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy). Means, Laurel.
The origins of geomancy are Arabic and the original geomantic figures were created by "making lines of random numbers of dots in the sand". [3] Geomancy was one of the most popular forms of divination throughout Africa and Europe, particularly during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was practiced by people from all social classes. [2]
geomancy / ˈ dʒ iː oʊ m æ n s i /: by earth (Greek gaîa | gê, ' earth ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') geloscopy / dʒ ɪ ˈ l ɒ s k oʊ p i / : by laughter (Greek gelōs , ' laughter ' + -skopiā , ' observation ' )
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The first appearance in print of the book of Geomancy bearing Cattan's name is in a form revised and augmented by an editor. The editor was Gabriel Dupréau [] of Marcoussis, Essonne (in the Latin form, Gabriel Prateolus (or Praïeolus) Marcossius), 1511–1588, an anti-Protestant theologian, the notable scholarly translator (from Latin into French) of the works of William of Tyre, [9] and ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Renaissance: . Renaissance – cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.
A table of magical correspondences is a list of magical correspondences between items belonging to different categories, such as correspondences between certain deities, heavenly bodies, plants, perfumes, precious stones, etc. [1] Such lists were compiled by 19th-century occultists like Samuel Liddell Mathers and William Wynn Westcott (both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ...