10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCAPULIMANTIC»
Discover the use of
scapulimantic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scapulimantic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-bone Inscriptions of ...
This aspect of oracle-bone scholarship is still in its infancy, and some of Hsu's
conclusions may need revision.161 But it is probable that hollow shapes will
eventually become a new and reliable criterion by which to date the
scapulimantic ...
2
Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study
Only the Shang rulers were able to sponsor the scapulimantic divination rituals (
divining according to the cracks that appear on burnt bones) that allowed them,
through their dead ancestors, to communicate with their high god, Shangdi.
3
Essays in Anthropology: Presented to A. L. Kroeber in ...
... indeed from being established. What, on this assumption, led to the shift from
the pyro-scapulimantic to the apyro-scapulimantic technique can only be vaguely
surmised. Possibly it was the preexisting Occidental pattern of entrails divination.
4
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
... the invention of the script was a tradition that identi¤ed sacred writings as signs
revealed through the medium of animals, a belief that echoed the appearance of
writings on animal parts in archaic plastromantic and scapulimantic practice.
5
History and the Supernatural in Medieval England
It promised new ways of thinking about ecstatic visionaries and scapulimantic
diviners by offering a neutral moral category in which they could be located but it
ultimately could not deliver satisfying explanations. As Nancy Caciola has ...
6
The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations
He conferred on it good and evil fortune, and communicated with it through the
medium of scapulimantic and plastromantic divination (the analysis of cracks
made in an animal shoulderblade or the undershell of a tortoise by the
application of ...
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, 1986
7
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of ...
But this work bears scapulimantic traces also (Wu Shih-Chhang, i). Most of the
classical books (e.g. the Li Chi (Record of Rites), the Chou Li (Record of the Rites
of Chou), the Shu Ching (Historical Classic), etc.) make mention of these two ...
8
Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula
He was just beginning to hunt in the capacity of a man, and so his testimony is
interesting as representing a stage in native scapulimantic education. He said
that A denoted his camp. He follows the trail and reaches a lake half-way B,
where ...
9
China Archaeology & Art Digest
In some senses the ultimate authority was the text itself and each dongba's
interpretations of the scapulimantic glyphs depended on the particular tradition
he inherited. A common principle was adhered to by dongba shamans in
mapping out ...
10
Religion: An Anthropological View
... which has three stages: a dream-induction rite, involvinga sweat bathand
drumming or shakinga rattle; in theevening, before sleep, a vision, hypnagogic
image, or dream of seeing or securing game; and finally, scapulimantic divination
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