{"product_id":"divination-oracles-omens-9781851246335","title":"Divination, Oracles \u0026 Omens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe past, present, and future are full of tantalising mysteries: questions about our own and other people's lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles, and texts, and even mathematical tools, including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer's uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from scepticism to serious engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362555871468,"sku":"9781851246335","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3019223482847.jpg?v=1772892021","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/divination-oracles-omens-9781851246335","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}