10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «SCAPULOMANCY»
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1
The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
J. G. D. Clark, in World Prehistory (1961), said “It will be recalled that the practice
of scapulomancy . . . can be traced back to the 'Neolithic' Lung-shan culture.”
William MacLeod, writing under the pseudonym of “Theophilus Insu- lanus,” in
his ...
2
The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan ...
Despite official and ecclesiastical condemnation, however, the particular practice
of scapulomancy appeared in Greece early in the Christian era. The Byzantine
writer Michael Psellos devoted a long descriptive passage to it, and a lengthy ...
At Karakorum, Mangu Kaan practiced the scapulomancy of his diviners, while at
the same time, before undertaking the conquest of Yunnan and southern China,
he built a monumental stupa which was probably intended to further the success
...
4
Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations
Nanaghat 236–237 Satanikota 298 western satraps 374 Satingpra 299
scapulomancy 299 scholarship. See also historical documents/scholarship W. G.
Aston 28 Étienne Aymonier 30 Henry Colebrook 84 Dong Zhongshu 95–96 Dong
Zuobin ...
5
Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume 2: The Corpus
scapulae were used for apyromantic scapulomancy. Karageorghis interprets this
instrument as a metric stick, Karageorghis and Demas (1985) p. 335, no. 8, or as
a possible instrument 'used to teach arithmetic, or to mark points in a game' ...
6
Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... an animal (especially a sheep). scapulomancy, divination from charred or
cracked shoulder blades of an animal that had been burned in sacrifice.
scarpomancy, reading character by studying a person's old shoes. scatomancy,
divination by ...
The Naskapi, who hunt caribou on the Labrador Peninsula, use a form of
divination called scapulomancy. In this divination ritual, a shoulder blade (
scapula) of a caribou or other animal is scorched by fire. The scorched bone is
used as a map ...
Serena Nanda, Richard Warms, 2013
8
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural ...
48), making the ethnographer 9 Herzfeld's analysis of scapulomancy as a
semiotics of prevalent concerns is analo- guous to my definition of nostalgia as
an interpretation of prevalent concerns in terms of evolution and "changing times"
: both ...
9
The Encyclopaedia of Islam
'ilm al-katif, or 'ilm al-aktdf : scapulomancy or omoplatoscopy, i.e. divination by the
use of the shoulder-bones. This art forms a part of the practices of physiognomy.
It is universal in scope, inasmuch as it provides for the foretelling of what will ...
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, 1998
10
Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
Savonarola, 295 Sazhin, Mikhail, 775 Scaliger, 327 Scandinavia: ecclesiatical
calendar from, 242; prehistory in, 14, 15, 19, 233-34 scaphe, 86 scapulomancy,
134 Schaeberle, John Martin, 472 Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 154-55
Scheele, ...
