For the use of random selection as a way to make a fair form of selection, see Sortition.
Cleromancy is a form of sortition (casting of lots) in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice (astragalomancy), but that are sometimes believed to reveal the will of a deity.
Cleromancy is a form of sortition (casting of lots) in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling...
class. The Lights and Perfection are sometimes connected by scholars with cleromancy (with divination by casting lots), although it is equally likely no casting...
sortilège in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sortilege may refer to: Cleromancy, divination by casting lots Sortes (ancient Rome) Sortilège (band), a...
auction; or a quantity of a financial instrument Sortition (drawing lots) Cleromancy, divination by casting lots Arabian lots, or Arabic parts, an astrological...
cast lots or draw lots is to make a random selection, and may refer to: Cleromancy, a form of sortition in which an outcome is determined by means that normally...
grounded in cleromancy, the production of seemingly random numbers to determine divine intent. The Zhou yi provided a guide to cleromancy that used the...
A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities; or natural extensions of the basic human...
[citation needed] Astragalomancy is often considered to be a branch of cleromancy. As a form of sortition, numbers are scrawled into the dice; the numbers...
ministers and deacons who are chosen by a combination of election and cleromancy (lot). The rules of the church, the so-called Ordnung, which differs to...
procedures that are commonly perceived as randomizers are used for divination. Cleromancy uses the casting of bones or dice to reveal what is seen as the will of...
I Ching divination is a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching. The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken)...
divination as found within myth. Apollo transfers to Hermes a skill in cleromancy, upon the request of Hermes. Speaking within the hymn,[which?] Apollo...
Since the oracular process is considered by scholars to have been one of cleromancy, with the Urim and Thummim being the objects which were drawn as lots...
elsewhere in connection with divination; it is thus a possibility that cleromancy involved teraphim. Josiah's reform in 2 Kings 23:24 outlawed teraphim...
can be used for divination and using dice for such a purpose is called cleromancy. A pair of common dice is usual, though other forms of polyhedra can be...
spontaneously or supernormally above their normal range of vision- second sight) Cleromancy Coco (folklore) Color symbolism Color therapy see Chromotherapy Cone of...
than the type of divination associated with the Bee Maidens and Hermes: cleromancy, the casting of lots. Honey, according to a Greek myth, was discovered...
literally means "Holy of Holies" Sortes Sanctorum, a type of divination or cleromancy practiced in early Christianity In Splendoribus Sanctorum, the communion...
public acclamation, due to his military victories, and not by Samuel's cleromancy. Another difference between the sources is that the Republican source...
of divination in their physics. The divination method of casting lots (Cleromancy) was used by the remaining eleven disciples of Jesus in Acts 1:23–26 to...
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