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Divination, Oracles & Omens
Verlag:
Bodleian Library Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: YG4K99Y
EAN: 9781851246335
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Zustellung: Do, 10.09.2026
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Beschreibung
A spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world. In Divination, Oracles & Omens. , Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn explore our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification. The past, present, and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other people's lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events. This fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles and texts, and even mathematical tools including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer's uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from skepticism to serious engagement. From ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Michelle Aroney
- David Zeitlyn
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 192