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Aeschylus and the poetics of divination

O Que Nos Faz Pensar, 2018
The main purpose of this paper is to show in general lines how divination is a key element in the construction of dramatic strategies in Aeschylus’ seven surviving plays, due to the fact that divination informs and defines both the singularity of the ...
Beatriz de Paoli
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell

HIMALAYA, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Duncan J. Poupard
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Believed belief: science/religion versus Sukuma magic [PDF]

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Stroeken, Koenraad
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A Literary Interpretation of Blood Symbolism in Ifá Divination Poetry

Yoruba Studies Review, 2021
Tis study undertakes a literary analysis of blood as a symbol as contained in the Ifá divination poetry among the Yorùbá of Southwestern Nigeria, which the researcher has collected through personal observations, consultations, and interviews with Ifá ...
Oluwabunmi Tope Bernard
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Taking Divination Seriously: From Mumbo Jumbo to Worldviews and Ways of Life

Religions, 2018
The peripheral role of divination in religious studies reflects centuries of misrepresentation and depreciation in the textual record. This long history dates back to the travel literature of early modern times, particularly in West Africa, where two ...
Sónia Silva
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Sortes virtuales: a comparative approach to digital divination

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divin­ation, may perhaps be considered an early form of information technology: it involves an input of information as well as an output of information, and between them, there is a
Jørgen Sørensen
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Avalokiteshvara Dice Divination

Oriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. The article discusses the Oirat and Tibetan texts of Avalokiteshvara divination. Goals. The paper aims to introduce the Oirat fortune-telling text (which was in use in Western Mongolia) and its Tibetan version into scientific circulation.
Bembya L. Mitruev
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On the Status of Natural Divination in Stoicism [PDF]

, 2020
Cicero’s De divinatione portrays the Stoics as unanimous in advocating both natural and technical divination. I argue that, contrary to this, the earlier leaders of the school like Chrysippus had reasons to consider natural divination to be significantly
Stojanovic, Pavle
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On divination: an exercise in comparative method

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
Some comparative methods aim at establishing universals, others seek human causes that will account for cross-cultural or transhistorical resemblance. The sole aim of the comparative method presented here is to improve our questionnaire.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Prediction and divination in Diodorus

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2007
Federico Santangelo, Prédiction et divination chez Diodore, DHA 33/2, 2007, 115-126. Résumé : Cet article est une discussion sur l'approche qu'a Diodore de la prédiction et de la divination, à partir de plusieurs passages de la Bibliothèque historique.
Federico Santangelo
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