Divination

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 163. Chapters: Dream interpretation, Tarot, Chinese astrology, Prophet, Cartomancy, Oracle, Necromancy, Nostradamus, Fortune-telling, Magic 8-Ball, Augur, Crystal gazing, Cold reading, Orunmila, Palmistry, Radiesthesia, I Ching, Methods of divination, Paul the Octopus, Feng shui, Geomancy, Hindu astrology, Ouija, Geomantic figures, Oracle bone, Ifá, Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot, King Wen sequence, Spodomancy, List of hexagrams of the I Ching, List of oracular statements from Delphi, Runic magic, Irk Bitig, Auspice, Seer stone, Scrying, Lal Kitab, Tiles of the Hold, Chinese fortune telling, Flamen, Tasseography, Corsned, Lithomancy, Sortes virgilianae, Bibliomancy, Psychic reading, Sortes Sanctorum, Haruspex, Kau cim, Pixiu, Da Liu Ren, Zi wei dou shu, Omen, Urim and Thummim, Nekyia, Cleromancy, Crystal ball, Shagai, Oneiromancy, Charles Walmesley, Hong Kong Lunar New year kau cim tradition, Qi Men Dun Jia, Deck of Dragons, Form constant, Rumpology, Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible, Gayatri Devi Vasudev, Four Pillars of Destiny, Omphalomancy, Omikuji, Zairja, Howard Beckman, Maya calendrical divination, Aeromancy, Alectryomancy, The Mythic Tarot, Tie ban shen shu, Psychomanteum, Arithmancy, Astragalomancy, Achmet, Querent, Hydromancy, Coscinomancy, Death-warning, Rhabdomancy, Scapulimancy, Jiaobei, Axinomancy, Dactylomancy, Cromniomancy, Tai Yi Shen Shu, Paper fortune teller, Kumalak, Macharomancy, Pyromancy, Taghairm, Belomancy, Tattva vision, Letra del año, Moleosophy, Astromancy, Akisutozeneko, Anachitis, Scatomancy, Iatromantis, Cledonism, Tokyujutsu, Ka-Bala, Apantomancy, Extispicy, Amniomancy, Yuan Hai Zi Ping, Aichmomancy, Plastromancy, Acultomancy, Libanomancy, Oracle cards, Falnama, Aleuromancy, Merindinlogun, Literomancy, Ornithomancy, Divine Comedies, Sortes Homericae, Cyclomancy, Tengenjutsu, Planchette, Luduan, Lottery poetry, Gyromancy, Symbolic stars, Rhapsodomancy, Fal-gush, Lampadomancy, Summa izbu, Favomancy, Catoptromancy, Dream question, Dobutsu uranai, Oinomancy, Ailuromancy, Chronomancy, Carromancy, Sternomancy, Pullularius, Cephalomancy, Botanomancy, Onychomancy, Abacomancy, Anthropomancy, Lecanomancy, Alphitomancy, Crithomancy, Metoposcopy, Molybdomancy, Footreading, Margaritomancy, Nigromancy, Slinneanachd, Capnomancy, Papyromancy, Oomancy, Benge, Ichnomancy, Nggàm, Myrmomancy, Oculomancy. Excerpt: The I Ching (Wade-Giles) or "Yì Jing" (pinyin), also known as the Book of Changes, Classic of Changes, and Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá system; in Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. The earliest extant version of the text, written on bamboo slips, albeit incomplete, is the Chujian Zhouyi, and dates to the latter half of the Warring States period (mid 4th to early 3rd century BC), and certainly cannot be later than 223 BC, when Chu was conquered by Qin. It is essentially the same as the standard text, except for a few significant variora. During the Warring States Period, the text was re-interpreted as a system of cosmology and philosophy that subsequently became intrinsic to Chinese culture. It centred on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change. The standard text originated from the ancient text (¿¿¿) transmitted by ...