Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: bloodofenoch@goddamnfruit.com ({ Secret Chief }) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.divination Subject: Re: Divination with Geomancy and Liber 963 Date: 13 Nov 2002 04:40:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <4jkA9.48101$Ik.1210708@typhoon.sonic.net> <3DD201DC.62100A55@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.196.18.135 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1037191248 6582 127.0.0.1 (13 Nov 2002 12:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Nov 2002 12:40:48 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:35101 alt.magick:324698 alt.divination:20716 Joseph wrote in message news:<3DD201DC.62100A55@pacbell.net>... > i thought it was west African for origin The jury's still out on that one. Whether the Arabs picked it up from the West Africans or vice-versa is a bit in dispute. > but isn't tossing objects on > dirt/sand fairly common? and since at least in the g.d. papers on the > subject, the geomantic images are placed on one of the old square > astrological charts, wouldn't relating the astrological symbolism as an > horary overlay to the geomantic system be relatively simple, at least > the actual construction of such a set, the interpretation could be more > difficult.