... The I Ching is an ancient Chinese book intended primarily for use in divination. Both the standard methods of consulting the book, one using yarrow stalks and the other using coins, lead to a “hexagram” which has various auguries attached to it. An analysis of the probabilities involved shows...

...Eschewing the idea that futures-thinking is a new enterprise, this chapter scans the past to retrieve the most pervasive and perdurable ways of relating to the future. Three modes are recovered: apocalyptic, world-repair (or ‘originalism’), and divination (or ‘fortune-telling...

... between data science and astrology—in order to conceptualize almanacs as precursors to the current regime of algorithmic prediction. The chapter experiments with computational astrologies and reflects upon the diagrammatic operations of data science. Benqué argues that divination opens up opportunities...

...sacrificers sacrifices divinities that are being appeased correspond to magoi many-knobbed cakes Daimons souls mystai a little bird (?) Erinyes/Eumenides souls The chapter focuses mainly on the opening columns of the Derveni papyrus...

... an introductory chapter on Roman law and administration before delving into the treatment of divination, Judaism, and Christianity. The study is furthermore focused not just on legal measures in the strict sense of the word, but it also takes into account the entirety of the legal process, including the origins...

...This chapter theorizes a number of ethnographic sites—from mechanical divination in Central Africa to gamelike interactions among jazz students and the development of jazz-improvising computerized algorithms in the United States—in which contingency produced by and harvested from nonhuman entities...

...This last chapter contrasts the literary handling of portents and astrological material in Ireland and Wales, focusing on the representation of persons with expertise in interpreting such signs. It argues that whilst the Irish tradition delighted in representations of the magic and divination...

...In this introductory chapter, the editors begin by pointing out that the materialization of time, the most famous intellectual interest of the ancient Maya, was aspirational through charting of the future through prophecy and divination as well as contemplative of the past in myth and historical...

...Divination is often seen in modern discussions as primarily a political matter, as a source of guidance for human action, a focus for decision-making, rather than a simple exercise in fortune telling. Such practical uses as divination undeniably had, however, rested upon a conviction...

... King Wu 武王 reassignment fate ming命 adapting adaptive agency uncertainty control matching turning inward divination conforming Guodian Mawangdui The previous chapter closed with a problem posed by the process of reification of fate: faced with an external world of heteronomous, opposing...

.... These interpretations proceeding alternatively by divining singular elements or by comparing them. By reconstructing meaning in this way, hermeneutics plays a fundamental role in the development of the spirit. Suggested Reading Arndt, Andreas , and Jörg Dierken , eds. Friedrich Schleiermachers...

..., these babaláwo instigated a movement to re-Yorubize Ifá divination across the Americas while creating a polemical ritual movement in Cuba itself. This chapter examines efficacy as a central tenet of Yorùbá revisionism, connecting the promise of heightened efficacy to the contentious politics of sound and gender...

... music talking drums speech surrogacy re-Yorubization efficacy of sound Ifá divination ritual revisionism Cuban ritual music On June 14, 2016, a group of thirty men and women paraded through the most densely populated neighborhood of Havana, engulfing the streets with a novel sound. At the heart...

...This chapter presents principles of divination and approaches to the study of Afro-Caribbean forms. Divination is the pivot on which critical religious practices—initiation, healing and protection, sacrifice, and possession trance—hinge. It commissions or sanctions these other rites. The chapter...

... are unlikely to have a divine origin: Apart from its general irrationality, the idea that it is a god who sends dreams, and yet he sends them not to the best and most intelligent, but to random people, is absurd (On Divination in Sleep, 462b21 3). We will come back to the divine origin of dreams in Chapters...

... background for teaching the Yijing, or for beginning serious study. It was developed in response to audience requests made at a major academic conference. The Changes began as a divination manual, but from the Warring States onward was also regarded as a book of wisdom...

... and cultic contexts; exploration of focused topics such as divination and other ritual practices of intermediation; textual criticism of the prophetic books, constructions of the persona of the prophet, and the problem of violence in prophetic rhetoric; historical and literary analysis of key prophetic texts...

...The chapter investigates the ritual aspect of ancient Eastern Mediterranean divination. Divination is defined as acquisition and transmission of allegedly superhuman knowledge by different means and understood as a cognitive process linking human action with its (presumed) preconditions and its...

...Calendrical systems in pre-Islamic Iran are surveyed here with particular emphasis on the use of calendrics in divination and astrology. The month names of the Old Persian calendar and the information on calendrics contained in Zoroastrian (Younger Avestan) sources are reviewed. The Zoroastrian...

... divinatione I vi 12, xviii 34) and more recently elaborated on by Sørensen ( 1999 ): Astrology and extispicy illustrate the variation in the practice of divination within the cuneiform tradition. Both flourished in the Neo-Assyrian period and the two complemented each other. By its very nature...