Oracle bone
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oracle-bone-183-4369348
title:
Oracle bone
text:
Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period in ancient China. Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox scapulae were used for the divination, plastromancy if turtle plastrons were used. A recent count estimated that there were about 13,000 bones with a total of a little over 130,000 inscriptions in collections in China and some fourteen other countries. Diviners would submit questions to deities regar
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Shells and bones used for divination in ancient China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone
date created:
2003-12-13T03:40:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T20:40:53Z
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