• Cleromancy is a form of sortition (casting of lots) in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling...
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  • sortilège in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sortilege may refer to: Cleromancy, divination by casting lots Sortes (ancient Rome) Sortilège (band), a...
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  • class. The Lights and Perfection are sometimes connected by scholars with cleromancy (with divination by casting lots), although it is equally likely no casting...
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  • cast lots or draw lots is to make a random selection, and may refer to: Cleromancy, a form of sortition in which an outcome is determined by means that normally...
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    grounded in cleromancy, the production of seemingly random numbers to determine divine intent. The Zhou yi provided a guide to cleromancy that used the...
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  • auction; or a quantity of a financial instrument Sortition (drawing lots) Cleromancy, divination by casting lots Arabian lots, or Arabic parts, an astrological...
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  • manteía, prophecy) astragalomancy/astragalamancy → see cleromancy astragyromancy → see cleromancy (from astragalomancy above, perhaps influenced by Greek...
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  • published by DC Comics I Ching (band), band from London I Ching divination, cleromancy method using I Ching Yijing (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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    A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities; or natural extensions of the basic human...
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    [citation needed] Astragalomancy is often considered to be a branch of cleromancy. As a form of sortition, numbers are scrawled into the dice; the numbers...
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    divination as found within myth. Apollo transfers to Hermes a skill in cleromancy, upon the request of Hermes. Speaking within the hymn,[which?] Apollo...
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    ministers and deacons who are chosen by a combination of election and cleromancy (lot). The rules of the church, the so-called Ordnung, which differs to...
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    Enlil, and Enki—the Sumerian gods of sky, wind, and water. Following the cleromancy ('casting of lots'), the sky is ruled by Anu, Earth by Enlil, and the...
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    lucky and unlucky days. Clairvoyance: by spiritual vision or inner sight. Cleromancy: by casting of lots, or casting bones or stones. Cold reading: by using...
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    procedures that are commonly perceived as randomizers are used for divination. Cleromancy uses the casting of bones or dice to reveal what is seen as the will of...
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    re-elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. Custom of the sea Cleromancy, a form of divination. Sortition, the practice of randomly selecting political...
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    I Ching divination is a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching. The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken)...
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    added later in Hoodoo. There are some Hoodoo practitioners that use both. Cleromancy is the practice of casting small objects such as shells, bones, stalks...
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    elsewhere in connection with divination; it is thus a possibility that cleromancy involved teraphim. Josiah's reform in 2 Kings 23:24 outlawed teraphim...
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    Since the oracular process is considered by scholars to have been one of cleromancy, with the Urim and Thummim being the objects which were drawn as lots...
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    than the type of divination associated with the Bee Maidens and Hermes: cleromancy, the casting of lots. Honey, according to a Greek myth, was discovered...
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    can be used for divination and using dice for such a purpose is called cleromancy. A pair of common dice is usual, though other forms of polyhedra can be...
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  • spontaneously or supernormally above their normal range of vision- second sight) Cleromancy Coco (folklore) Color symbolism Color therapy see Chromotherapy Cone of...
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    begrudgingly accepting the people's demand for a ruler and appointing Saul by cleromancy.[citation needed] The pro-monarchical source describes the divinely-appointed...
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  • Meditation Muraqaba Prayer Remote viewing Yoga Astrology Augur Cartomancy Cleromancy Divination Dowsing Pendulum Fortune-telling Geomancy Haruspex I Ching...
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    capture Ai, with about 36 Israelites lost (Joshua 7:5). The Israelites used cleromancy (the sacred Lots Urim and Thummim) to decide who was to blame, and having...
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    *weik- 'to separate, to divide', probably via early Germanic practices of cleromancy such as those reported by Tacitus). R. Lühr connects wigol 'prophetic...
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    public acclamation, due to his military victories, and not by Samuel's cleromancy. Another difference between the sources is that the Republican source...
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    of divination in their physics. The divination method of casting lots (Cleromancy) was used by the remaining eleven disciples of Jesus in Acts 1:23–26 to...
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  • literally means "Holy of Holies" Sortes Sanctorum, a type of divination or cleromancy practiced in early Christianity In Splendoribus Sanctorum, the communion...
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