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Scapulimancy is the
specific term if ox sca****e were used for the divination,
plastromancy if
turtle plastrons were used. A
recent count estimated that
there were...
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visited a
Great Diviner to
resolve some of his
moral dilemmas, by
means of
plastromancy or by
casting yarrow stalks. However, in the end the
diviner excuses...
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divination using bones, one type of
which involves heating to
produce cracks Plastromancy:
divination using turtle plastrons; in China, this was done by heating...
- used in a very
broad sense to
jointly refer to both
scapulimancy and
plastromancy (similar
divination using plastrons). However, the term
osteomancy might...
- with the s**** of a tortoise. In the
Shang dynasty Chinese practice of
plastromancy,
dating back to 1200 BCE,
oracles were
obtained by
inscribing questions...
- plásmatos), πλάθω (pláthō) plasma, plastic, plastique, plastochron,
plastromancy, plastron, prosoplasia, protoplasm, pseudoplastic,
symplast plat- flat...
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appearance of
plants (Gr**** phuton, 'plant' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')
plastromancy: by
cracks formed by heat on a turtle's
plastron (English
plastron +...
- yarrow-stalk
method favours static lines over
moving lines in the
ratio 3:1.
Plastromancy or the turtle-s****
oracle is
probably the
earliest recorded form of...
- plásmatos), πλάθω (pláthō) plasma, plastic, plastique, plastochron,
plastromancy, plastron, prosoplasia, protoplasm, pseudoplastic,
symplast plat- flat...
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plastrons were used by the
ancient Chinese in a type of
divination called plastromancy. See also
Oracle bones. The turtle's s**** is
covered in
scutes that...
