{"product_id":"divination-oracles-omens","title":"Divination, Oracles \u0026 Omens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Divination, Oracles \u0026amp; Omens\u003c\/i\u003e, Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn explore our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Divination, Oracles \u0026 Omens","offer_id":45121146781893,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-85124-633-5.jpg?v=1758499932","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/divination-oracles-omens","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}