Belomancy
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Belomancy
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Belomancy, also bolomancy, is the ancient art of divination by use of arrows. The word is built upon Ancient Greek: βέλος, romanized: belos, lit. 'arrow, dart', and μαντεία, manteia, 'divination'. Belomancy was anciently practiced at least by Babylonians, Greeks, Arabs and Scythians. The arrows were typically marked with occult symbols and had to have feathers for every method. In one method, different possible answers to a given question were written and tied to each arrow. For example, three a
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Ancient art of divination by use of arrows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belomancy
date created:
2005-03-07T16:43:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T13:30:58Z
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