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Divination (from
Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') is the
attempt to gain
insight into a
question or
situation by way of...
- Look up
divination in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Divination is the
attempt to gain
insight into a
question or
situation by way of an
occultic ritual...
- is an
ancient Chinese divination text that is
among the
oldest of the
Chinese classics. The I
Ching was
originally a
divination manual in the Western...
- Ifá is a
divination system originating from
Yorubaland in West Africa. It
originates within the
traditional religion of the
Yoruba people although is also...
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Various forms of
witchcraft and
divination are
mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament),
which are
expressly forbidden. Laws prohibiting...
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Geomancy translates literally to "earth
divination," and the term was
originally used to mean
methods of
divination that
interpret geographic features, markings...
- sca**** and
turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of
divination –
during the Late
Shang period (c. 1250 – c. 1050 BCE) in
ancient China...
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Methods of
divination can be
found around the world, and many
cultures practice the same
methods under different names.
During the
Middle Ages, scholars...
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African divination is
divination practiced by
cultures of Africa.
Divination is an
attempt to form, and possess, an
understanding of
reality in the present...
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Divination in
Sleep (or On
Prophesying by Dreams;
Ancient Gr****: Περὶ τῆς καθ᾽ ὕπνον μαντικῆς; Latin: De
divinatione per somnum) is a text by Aristotle...
