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The Taixuanjing is a divination guide composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE) in the decade prior to the fall of the Western Han dynasty. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE; during the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang (范望) salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today.
Divination would only be used where there was a shortage of food or a crisis. [3] The process involved holding the cleaned shoulder blade over hot coals, heating and scorching the bone. The wide plane of the blade corresponded to the hunting grounds used at the time, and the cracks and scorch spots which resulted from the process were used to ...
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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]
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Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The use of sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for "magical medicine", for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
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