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The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek.
Oracle Cloud SCM, also known as Oracle Supply Chain & Manufacturing, is a cloud-based SCM software application suite used by companies to build and manage intelligent supply chains. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This includes support for procurement , order management , manufacturing , product lifecycle management , maintenance, logistics , and supply ...
Scapulimancy (also spelled scapulomancy and scapulamancy, 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 practiced in China and the Sinosphere as oracle bones, but has also been independently developed in other traditions including the West.
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. [5] Co-founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle ranked as the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization as of 2020, [6] and the company's seat in Forbes Global 2000 was 80 in 2023.
The English language has reduced mention of mantic pronouncements to one word, "oracle," based on Latin oraculum, which can also mean the mantic center. This double meaning is true in ancient Greek and Latin also. [7] The Greeks and Romans did not have a standard word that would apply in all cases.
Kau chim, kau cim, chien tung, [1] "lottery poetry" and Chinese fortune sticks are names for a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which a person poses questions and interprets answers from flat sticks inscribed with text or numerals. The practice is often performed in a Taoist or Buddhist temple in front of an altar.
Classical oracles is a category for the oracle-sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books - real, forged or imagined - of Greek and Roman antiquity. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...