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What is or was scapulimancy used for?

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What is or was scapulimancy used for?
posted May 20, 2022 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Divination
Questions were carved or written onto a bone, in the case of scapulimancy the shoulder blade or scapula of an ox, intense heat was then applied with a metal rod until the bone cracked, and the answer divined from the pattern of the cracks. The oracle bones were used in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty in the second millennium BCE. As well as ox bone diviners used the undershell, or plastron, of turtles.

answer May 23, 2022 by Samardeep Acharya
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