divination
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From precolonial Mexico we discover obsidian mirrors used for divination in Mayan and Aztec ceremonies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The shamans, like the one seen in “Squid Game,” usually are mediators to the spirit world using divination or other rituals.
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025
Ancestral divination is imperative in order to get through to that, because they’re always there watching.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
The earliest versions of tarot decks weren’t even used as a form of divination.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024
But there were the butcher priests, too, performing divination of animal entrails, and the Doomsayers on their stilts, crying End Times from behind their skeleton masks.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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The Alchemist
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