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Livres anciens et modernes

Michelle Aroney , David Zeitlyn , Edts.

Divination, Oracles & Omens

Bodleian 2024,

38,00 €

Pali s.r.l. Libreria

(Roma, Italie)

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Auteur
Michelle Aroney , David Zeitlyn , Edts.
Éditeurs
Bodleian 2024
Thème
Classica Ancient Rome Greece
Description
H
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo, hardcover 192pp. The past, present and future are full of tantalizing mysteries: questions about our own and other peopleís 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 soothsayerís uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from scepticism 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.
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