Michelle Aroney: Divination, Oracles & Omens, Gebunden
Divination, Oracles & Omens
Buch
- Verlag:
- Bodleian Library, 01/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781851246335
- Artikelnummer:
- 11870168
- Umfang:
- 192 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 680 g
- Maße:
- 217 x 168 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 20.1.2025
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.