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L'idée de la carte ci-dessus s'inspire de la "Carte du voyage géomantique" de Philippe Dubois, qui donne à la fois l'instantané de la répartition géographique de la géomancie et synthétise sa diffusion historique
Voir p. 41 de "Géomancie, Pratiques et interprétations"Philippe Dubois, 1986, Albin Michel.
"Feng (vent) et Shui (eau) signifient en chinois "lieu géomantique"... La diffusion de cette pratique divinatoire a été très importante. On la retrouve aussi bien en Extrême Orient, aux Indes, à Madagascar, en Afrique ou en Amérique du Sud qu'à Byzance ou en Europe, où certaines universités ont même développé un enseignement spécifiquement géomantique." Résumé pour le journal "Le Monde", par Jean-Michel Dumay, de l'émission "L'homme entre ciel et terre" diffusée par France-Culture (série "Les chemins de la connaissance").
===> Arabic geomantic treatises by TARABULSI, ZENATI, etc...!
" ...Zat al-Durar fi ‘Ilm al-Athar (Risala fi ‘Ilm al-Raml)-
...al-Risala al-Ma’iyya fi al-Kalimat al-Zanatiyya-
...al-Qawa‘id al-Usuliyya fi al-Aškal al-Ramliyya-
‘Traditional Rules in Geomantic Figures’
An anonymous manuscript.
"...Le déroulement général des opérations de constitution et d'interprétation du tableau reste le
même : un tirage effectué par le praticien ; l'extraction des quatre premières figures, les
"mères" (al-ummahât), desquelles, suivant l'application de deux règles différentes, sont
extraites à leur tour douze autres figures ; extraction du damîr (cf. supra) ; analyse, enfin,
du tableau selon divers procédés et à l'aide d'un ensemble de mises en rapport entre les seize
figures géomantiques et les quatre éléments, les planètes, les signes du zodiaque, les lettres,
les chiffres, etc.
...il s'agit essentiellement de tasâkîn (sing. taskîn, façon d'ordonner les figures les unes
par rapport aux autres, leur conférant à chacune une place "naturelle" dans un taskîn donné,
les écarts entre cette place et celle occupée dans le tableau une fois composé étant chargés
de signification)..."
Here I found the only other reference to "Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili"
C'est en 1897 que Paul Meyer a publié la transcription partielle du second poème
de Maitre Guilhem [*], accompagnée d'un imposant appareil critique citant en parallèle le
traité de Géomance de CATTAN, dans son un article sur les "Traités en vers provençaux sur
l'Astrologie et la géomancie" (Romania, XXVI.).
[*] Theodor Ebneter en a depuis donné la transcription intégrale ("Poèmes sur les signes
géomantiques en ancien provençal, Urs Graf-Verlag 1955)].
"...mention of the 'School of Toledo' is obligatory in any history of translation. Toledo, we are told, was the place where Christendom gained what the Arabs knew in the fields of astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine and necromancy...
VIÊT NAM KHOA
Remark : Page contents, writen in Vietnamese, are better view with VNI Fonts.
Note about Vietnamese Geomancy :
"...In geomancy ('ilm al-raml), the first 'house' (bayt) of the ummahat is called nafs
because it guides to problems concerning the soul and spirit of the inquirer,
and to the beginning of affairs (Muhammad al-Zanati, Kitab al-Fasl fi 'ilm al-raml,
Cairo n.d., 7; cf. Henr. Corn. Agrippae, Opera, Leiden, n.d., but early 17th century,
412: nam primus domus personam tenet quaerentis).
NAFS -
"...The Arabs attribute to Daniel the invention of geomancy ("'ilm al-raml") and the authorship
of the "Usul al-Ta'bir" (The Principles of Interpreting Dreams).
Mas'udi says there were two Daniels: Daniel the Elder, who lived in the period between Noah
and Abraham, and was the father of the above-mentioned sciences; and Daniel the Younger, who,
according to a tradition, was the maternal uncle of Cyrus, whose mother was a Jewess.
The Arabs attribute to him the book "Kitab al-Jafar" (Divination) and many predictions relative
to the Persian kings.
... The Arabs attribute to Daniel the invention of geomancy ("'ilm al-raml") and the
authorship of the "Usul al-Ta'bir" (The Principles of Interpreting Dreams). ...
Description: Overview of the Biblical prophet from the traditional Jewish perspective,
including Talmudic commentary..."
"...Wim van Binsbergen, Improvising away from fixed verbal formulae in the four-tablet oracle
of sangomas in contemporary Botswana.
The rich available literature offers ample evidence
for the essential formal and generic unity of such major African divination systems as Ifa,
Sixteen Cowries (Nigeria, Benin), Sikidy (Madagascar), and Hakata (Southern Africa), all of
which can be regarded as transformations of the system of ‘Sand Science’(‘ilm al-raml) or
‘Sand Calligraphy’ (khatt al-raml) which spread from Abbasid Iraq all over the Islamic world,
the Indian Ocean region, and Africa from the late first millennia CE onwards...
... Madagascar), and Hakata (Southern Africa), all of which can be regarded as transformations
of the system of ‘Sand Science’(‘ilm al-raml)..."
"...In my reading of divination literature I eventually came across the duplicate of the Bamana
technique 5,000 miles to the east in Malagasy sikidy (Sussman and Sussman 1977), which inspired
a study of the history of its diffusion.The strong similarity of both symbolic technique and
semantic categories to what Europeans termed geomancy was first noted by Flacourt (1661)...
The commonality was confirmed in a detailed formal analysis by Jaulin (1966).
But where did it originate?...
...Skinner (1980) provides a well-documented history of the diffusion evidence, from the first
specific written record, a ninth century Jewish commentary by Aran ben Joseph...
...The oldest Arabic documents (those of az-Zanti in the thirteenth century) claim the origin of geomancy (ilm al-raml, "the science of sand")...
...Mathematically, however, geomancy is strikingly out of place in non-African
systems.
...European geomancers -- Raymond Lull, Robert Fludd, de Peruchio,
Henry de Pisis and others -- persistently replaced the deterministic aspects of the system
with chance.By mounting the sixteen figures on a wheel and spinning it, they maintained their
society's exclusion of any connections between determinism and unpredictability...
...In Africa, on the other hand, base two calculation was
ubiquitous, even for multiplication and division. And it is here that we find the cultural
connotations of doubling that ground the divination practice in its religious significance.
... one source of this difference: the African concept of a “trickster” god, one who is both
deterministic and unpredictable..."
"...of divination systems, whose first and most widespread attestation in documentary
sources is that in the form of the Arabic khatt al-raml..."
"...An archaeoastronomical analysis of the La Ferrassie Neandertal world-view,
and its aftermath in historical times..."
by Wim van Binsbergen with the astronomical collaboration of Jean-Pierre Lacroix
"...has no connections with any American Ifa/Orisha tradition like Lukumi or Santeria...(It) bases its teachings solely upon African traditions and on the memories of, and practices from, ancestral Africa and the Orisha Orunmila that survive in Europe..."
A short general article about Yoruba divination
(On kola nuts in Fa geomancy).
Sikidy, Original African history...
...The Dogon also know that Saturn has rings... "
(*) Dans Passions des formes. Dynamique qualitative, sémantique et intellibilité, À René Thom, École normale supérieure, Michèle Porte (dir.), Éditions Fontenay-St Cloud, 1994.
"...A particularly effective example can be seen in an astrological game called the
Triumph of Fortune played in the Italian Courts of the 16th century..."
(Excerpt from a full list of 72 questions :)
"1) In che tempo si deve cominciare una guerra?
The 32 questions :
"Inform me of all particulars relating to my future husband.
"...choses. Les autres sciences sont geomance, ydromance, et telx sors,..."
Hasard provient du mot "...arabe az-zahr , qui désigne le jeu de dés..." :
"...For 20 years I edited the only journal in the world devoted solely to leys, THE LEY HUNTER,
and I think I have come to know the subject more intimately and in more detail than anyone else
alive. The first thing I can assure you is that what is talked about in New Age journals,
workshops and groups today about 'leylines' is mainly a combination of misunderstanding,
old falsehoods, wishful thinking and downright fantasy... " (from the first article by
Paul Devereux)
"...A significantly-abridged version of article "SPIRIT WAYS & SHAMANISM", published in the German
journal, "Dao", in 1997 (elements of this text also used in part in other contexts, such as in
The Ley Hunter journal):..." (from the introduction to the second article by Paul Devereux)
(*) "...La buffatière remonte à la nuit des temps : on ne sait pas quand elle e été créée pour la première fois. On la trouve également à Fayet, à Hospitalet-du-Larzac. On trouve aussi des farandoles à Camares, à Belmont ou à Lacaune, mais ce n'est pas tout à fait la même chose..."
Géomancie arabe et maghrebine
‘The Pearls Holder in the Science of al-Athar (Treatise on Geomancy)’
By al-Tarabulsiy...
‘The One Hundredfold Treatise on Words of al-Zanatiy’
The explanation of the one hundred words said by
Abu-‘Abdillah al-Zanatiy on geomancy...
(Damanhur Municipal)..."
Travel report of a visit at the British Museum, with a picture of the early 13th Century Islamic
Geomancy Device (the geomantic astrolab) ...
(i.e. the crafman of the Islamic geomantic device)
"...A perfume-burner (1238, Keir Collection) has a Jazirian shape that spred after in Syria then in Egypt.
An else perfume-burner, belonging to a private collection, is signed Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili.
The same Khutlukh made a table of geomancy at Damascus in 1241-42, (British Museum)..."
Search the Compass database for the picture of the _Brass geomantic instrument, made by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili_... :
a direct link to the Compass photographic database was not possible ; with the word "Islamic" as keyword,
the famous "13th Century Islamic Geomancy Device" will stand on the first result page (fifth column, fourteenth row) ...
Géomancie provençale (Santalla - Guilhem)
Géomancie italienne (latine)
Negotiating the Frontier
(unpublished work in progress)
Toledo and All That
© Anthony Pym 1998
...We could possibly date the third stage from 1157 to 1187, the years that the Italian translator Girardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona) would seem to have spent at Toledo..."
"...| X | Y | Z | Gerard of Cremona A twelfth-century student of...
...at Cremona, in 1114; died in 1187. The place and date of Gerard's..."
"...and Arabic writers into Latin. Gerard went to Toledo to learn Arabic in..."
Part Six : MORALITY AND RELIGION.
Influence of Ancient Superstition.
"But in another way, and that dogmatically, antiquity exercised perilous influence. It imparted to the Renaissance its own forms of superstition..."
Sources islamiques de Perse (Les Soufis)
"The following is a brief summary or basic overview of Sufism as i understand it, through study, practice and experience..."
Sources chinoises (Ji Jing & Gnomon divinatoire)
"...In the latter half of the 20th century, America and Europe have taken a tremendous interest in Asian philosophy. The importation of Chinese and Chinese-influenced religions, literature, martial arts, alternative medicines, fortune-telling systems, and popular culture have exposed Westerners to a world-view radically different from that of the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian civilizations... "
The webmaster of this new page asked me to "...refer to the Vietnamese Science of Changes...http://scienceofchanges.freeservers.com...";
So do I.
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DICHLÝ HOC
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THE VIETNAMESE SCIENCE OF CHANGES
Thu' Ngó Gidi Thiêu Quá'i Ngh~ia Lý Sõ VNI Fonts
"...Geomancy in Vietnam was and is even closer to the Chinese than is Japanese geomancy. No doubt this is partly due to the fact that from the second century BC to the tenth AD, with short breaks, Vietnam was governed by Chinese administrators and received many Chinese immigrants, while Japan was never administered or inhabited by Chinese..."
Stephen D.R. FEUCHTWANG, An anthopological analysis of Chinese geomancy, Vithagna, 1974. (p. 228)
"...Tibetan art of divination By Dorjee Tseten Tibetan Bulletin March - April..."
Sustainable Architecture,
Strategic Planning,
Feng-shui ;
"...We have chronicles of the Vintana in Madagascar and the Hindu Vastuvidya in India, as well as the systems of feng-shui in China. The design sciences from the Mayan world, though fascinating, are only now being partially reconstructed after the Spanish burning of records in the 1500's. The feng-shui history is unique, perhaps, in its extensive written documentation and its application to cities, temples, homes, interior design, and the landscape as a whole..." (article by TOM BENDER)
Géomancie arabe Omeyyade & Califat de Cordoue
"... The term "geomancy" comes from medieval Latin geomantia, first used in Spain in
the 12th century as a translation of the Arabic name ‘ilm al-raml'..."
"Jabir treatises on chemistry, including his Kitab al-Kimya, and Kitab al-Sab'een were translated into Latin in the Middle Ages... The second book was translated by the famous Gerard of Cremona (D. 1187)." (article Jabir Ibn Haiyan [Geber]).
... In geomancy ('ilm al-raml), the first 'house' (bayt) of the ummahat is called nafs
because it guides to problems concerning the soul and spirit of the inquirer..."
Géomancie arabe & byzantine
"... Girolamo Cardano (1501-76) opened his Ars magna by declaring algebra's indebtedness to the Arab world. He asserted that "this art originated with Mahomet the son of Moses the Arab [i.e., al-Khwarizmi]"[1] and proceeded to expound the findings of al-Khwarizmi and his successors in the Arabic line of descent..." (from the introduction)
"Quadrants go back to the Hellenic period and were described by Ptolemeus. The interest over Astronomical studies, stimulated with the translations of Arab and Greek treaties by Gerardo of Cremona and others. Under Afonso X of Castile, Gerardo of Cremona left the Iberian Peninsula for the north of Europe at the end of the XIIIth century..."
Géomancie brésilienne (Orisha)
"...Afro-Brazilian cults... in different areas of Brazil with different rites and local names derived from diverse African traditions: Candomblé in Bahia1, Xangô in Pernambuco and Alagoas2, Tambor de Mina in Maranhão and Pará3, Batuque in Rio Grande do Sul4, and Macumba in Rio de Janeiro..." (from the introduction).
I found here an interessing article on Pierre FATUMBI Verger (MAY/26/99).
Géomancie africaine (Fa)
by Wim van Binsbergen.
"...The Orisha FA is also known as IFA, as Orunmila, and as Orunla. The system of learning was brought to Humans by the messenger Orisha known as Legba and as Eshu..."
Ifa, but the Yoruba's certainly deserve the credit for adorning their system with an enormous amount of enlightening texts...
Nederlands Ifa Genootschap bases its teachings and practices on African and not on American traditions." (Dutch Church of Ifa)
-"The purpose of this site is the spreading of the wisdom of Orunmila and Ifa, mainly by making available to the general public a representative and workable corpus of Odu texts for, eventually, each and every single one of the 256 individual Odu..."
(Dutch Church of Ifa, homepage)
"The Orisha FA is also known as IFA, as Orunmila, and as Orunla.
The system of learning was brought to Humans by the messenger Orisha known as Legba and as Eshu.
"...To Ifa belongs all the four days created
by the divinities on earth..."
Odu: The Basis of Ifá
"...In additions, there was a court-appointed Bokono or Fa seer, or diviner, who was consulted regularly before any major decision was made..."
Board-games and divination in global cultural history
a theoretical, comparative and historical perspective on mankala and geomancy in Africa and Asia, by Wim van Binsbergen
Pour Christian Bertaux, auteur notamment de «Théorie des Catastrophes et Divination par le sable» (*), il n'y a pas d'ethnologue sans terrain. Le sien se situe au Mali dans cette histoire d'un marabout géomancien minyanka et d'un féticheur traditionnel qu'il nous conte ici, où se mêlent double-culture, déchirures et liens, dans un espace de parole à la fois français, minyanka et bambara...
Paru dans "RELIGIOLOGIQUES, 18 (automne 1998) Marges contemporaines de la religion", le titre exact de cet l'article est :"L'histoire de Koulibali, l'Immortel, et de Dadouma, le marabout géomancien minyanka. Pour une critique des étayages langagiers que présuppose le projet classique des sciences.").
Géomancie malgache (Sikidy)
Histoire contemporaine
By ALEXANDER WILDER. (theosophy)
Logiciels Libres & Sharewares
Une simulation divinatoire est également proposée en téléchargement :
"GéoSim : ce programme (freeware) vous permettra de faire des tirages divinatoires de géomancie le plus simplement du monde."
Permet de s'initier à la Géomancie, art divinatoire très ancien. Pour ce qui connaissent déjà, ce logiciel leur sera très précieux pour gagner un temps considérable, les calculs (très longs) étant automatiques." Auteur : CAROFF Gilles.
by James E. Morrison, has received the Britannica Internet Guide award.
"...This page provides a very general overview of astrolabe principles...
...The astrolabe in the picture was made by the French scientist and craftsman Jean Fusoris in about 1400...
...You can also download The Electric Astrolabe...a fully animated planetarium program in the form of a planispheric astrolabe... a DOS program, but it runs very nicely under Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98..."
Histoire médiévale & Bibliographies
"Le Centre d'Étude des Textes Médiévaux, Composante du Cellam, s'est fixé pour tâche (...) de réfléchir autour de la question du miroir au Moyen Âge : objet, figure, symbole..."
"...MIROIR :
Surface où l’on peut spéculer. Les anciens voyaient dans le miroir une représentation du monde plus juste encore que le monde lui-même...Jean de Meung a rêvé ce miroir, qui offrait de lire le monde entier. Borges aussi ; il appelait cela un Aleph. Ce qui est offert ici est alors du registre de l’expérience plus que du savoir transmissible. Notre civilisation a abandonné le miroir sphérique pour le plan..."
"...The Medieval Debate on Jean de Meung's Roman de la Rose:...
Structures of Duality and Deceit in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose..."
: Jean de Meung also wrote an alchemical text.
"...(l'oeuvre de) Guillaume de Lorris... (auquel) s'oppose la continuation de Jean de Meung, d'une veine naturaliste..."
2) Potra una fortezza essere conquistata?
3) La fede potra essere interrotta?
4) Chi vincera il duello?
5) Il cavallo e un buon acquisto?
6) Si deve cambiare padrone?
7) Il servo sara riconoscente al suo padrone?
8) Il servo si ribellera?
9) In quale luogo si svolgera la guerra?
...
17) se desideri essere amato dall'amata
...
19) Se l'amante dovra soffrire per l'amata
20) Se quest'anno ci sara carestia o abbondanza
21) Quante donne un uomo avra per compagne
22) Che significato hanno una certa eclissi o la comparsa di una cometa
23) Se sia il caso di prendere una donna bella o piuttosto brutta
25) Quanti mariti avra una donna
26) Se un uomo avra figli
...
33) Se la donna e o non e incinta..."
Inform me of any or of all particulars which relate to the woman I shall marry.
Will the prisoner be released or continue captive?
Shall I live to an old age?
Shall I have to travel far by sea or land, or to reside in foreign climes?
Shall I be involved in litigation, and if so, shall I gain or lose my cause?
Shall I make, or mar, my fortune, by gambling?
Shall I ever be able to retire from business with a fortune?
Shall I be eminent and meet with preferment in my pursuits?
Shall I be successful in my present undertaking?
Shall I ever inherit testamentary property?
Shall I spend this year happier than the last?
Will my name be immortalized and will posterity applaud it?
Will the friend, I most reckon upon, prove faithful or treachrous?
Will the stolen property be recovered, and will the thief be detected?
What is the aspect of the seasons, and what political changes are likely to take place?
Will the stranger soon return from abroad?
Will my beloved prove true in my absence?
Will the marriage about to take place be happy and prosperous?
After my death, will my children be virtuous and happy?
Shall I ever recover from my present misfortunes?
Does my dream portend good luck or misfortune?
Will it be my lot to experience great vicissitudes in this life?
Will my reputation be all, or much, affected by calumny?
Shall the patient recover from illness?
Does the person whom I love, love and regard me?
Shall my intended journey be prosperous or unlucky?
Shall I ever find a treasure?
What trade, or profession, ought I to follow?
Have I any, or many, enemies?
Are absent friends in good health, and what is their present employment?
Shall my wife have a son or a daughter?..."
"...traduction latine de Gérard de Crémone, une large postérité...."
"...The Arbatel de Magia Veterum first appeared in Latin in 1575.
It is mentioned by John Dee in his Mysteriorum Libri. A.E. Waite
classified it as a 'ritual of transcendental magic' i.e. free from
'dangerous instruction which makes for open Black Magic.'
(BCM p. 28.) In 1655 it was translated into English by Robert Turner.
Diagram on title page did not appear in Turner's edition, but is here
supplied from edition of Andreas Luppius, Wesel, 1686..."
(article by JHP)
"...circumnavigatio. [A defence of Arnoldus de Villa Nova...
...Arternidori Oneirocritici Geograpbin. Pythagoras de Mari Rubro.
The Works of Confutius the famous Philosopher of China, translated
into Spanish..."
L'Editeur parisien Nicolas Bonfons est l'auteur d'une des nombreuses rééditions du calendrier des Bergers, célèbre almanach astrologique médiéval.
Celui-ci a aussi réédité une farce rabelaisienne :
Les aventures de Fessepinte
(1574).
"THE early Middle Ages, while it produced a fair amount of argument about astrology, and saw a diminution of its influence on monarchs, did not mark as complete a collapse as some historians have suggested..."
(Article).
"The Twelfth century renaissance in general, Hereford in particular : There were many twelfth-century scholars who went to Spain in search of the new Arabic knowledge...
There he encountered Gerard of Cremona, who had translated among many other works Ptolemy's Almagest. Gerard had founded a school of translators and was actually giving lectures to students on astrology. Daniel returned to England, laden down with precious books, and encountered his patron, John, Bishop of Norwich. Daniel's book was inspired by the Bishop's questions about "astronomy [and] those sublunary events which seem to serve the higher bodies by a kind of necessary obedience". It was not the only book written at the request of a twelfth century bishop to spread the new learning. "
Dans les notes bibliographiques de bas de page on relève un ouvrage d'astronomie publié par Nicolas Bonfons :
"...[39] Ed. 1576, Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, BNF Res. « Texte [40]...
...des éditions ptolémaïques de Nicolas Bourdin (1640-1651)..."
"The discovery of the Four Elements is generally credited to Empedocles, a fifth century BCE Greek from Sicily. Although he is commonly considered one of the founders of Western science and philosophy, Peter Kingsley has presented convincing evidence that it is better to view him as an ancient Greek "Divine Man" (Theios Anêr), that is, a Iatromantis (healer-seer, "shaman") and Magos (priest-magician)..." (from the introduction)
"...The scholasticism of medieval Catholic Europe, focussed
entirely as it was upon ancient authority, was unable to inform
scientific inquiry until the revolutionary libraries of Islam were
made available to the Catholic world.
All western advances in civil engineering, mathematics,
chemistry, medicine and astronomy were founded upon the
medieval sciences of Islam, which were themselves built upon
the classical traditions lost to the west during the Germanic
destruction of the Roman Empire.
This text clearly details the huge contribution of Islamic
civilisation to the Later European Renaissance, and is an edited
version of a paper once written for a university course..."
Hugh Bibbs, B.A.
Bowen Island
Canada
Nicole Oresme : Le livre de divinacions (extraits)
"...Nicole (ou Nicolas) Oresme (1322?-1382) est né en Normandie. Il suit les cours, à Paris, du célèbre philosophe et physicien Jean Buridan, originaire de Béthune et théoricien de l'impetus. Il enseigne la théologie à Paris entre 1358 et 1361. L'archidiacre de Bayeux est nommé évêque de Lisieux en 1377.[1]
Oresme est un esprit universel : théologien, philosophe, économiste, géomètre, physicien. Il traduit pour Charles V divers traités d'Aristote, dont la Politique, les Économiques et la première traduction de l'Éthique à Nicomaque en langue vernaculaire, et commente le traité De l'âme..."
Divers
This Amerindian page shows "art and artifacts, rituals, and culture of Native American Indians" and "sacred and historical sites."
"All misguided and ill-founded opinions about Indians do us damage...New Age (and Other) Ripoff Sites...clearly using Native American imagery and "noble savage" stereotypes for their own profit."
"...Le hasard est-il le produit de notre ignorance, ou fait-il partie de la nature des choses ? ...En biologie comme sans doute ailleurs, la notion de hasard est intimement liée à celle d'information.
...L'évolution n'est pas une partie de billard, mais un lancer de polyèdres..."
Jacques Arnould, 1997.
"Ouija knows all the answers. Weird and mysterious. Surpasses, in its unique results, mind reading, clairvoyance and second sight..."
"Divination The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden...
...or evil spirits. Hence the word divination has a sinister signification.... "
(*) Alchemy
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, by Anthony F. Beavers :
"Pythagoras of Samos (c.560-c.480BC), mathematician, philosopher and religious leader, founded a religious community (the Pythagorean Order) in Croton on the coast of Italy around 530 BC. According to Aristotle (see Metaphysics 985b-986a), the Pythagoreans, first to develop the science of mathematics, revered number as the first principle of all things, probably due to their discovery that the principles of musical harmony could be explained with mathematics..."
"...Spirals and waves, ancient symbols of the cyclical nature of life, are present in many megalithic carvings..."
(Megalithic Pages, by Jan Bily).
"...In 1990 I developed and published software entitled Mayan Calendrics to convert between Maya and European dates. Here is the first three chapters from the documentation which accompanied the software. This gives the theoretical background..."
An "...ASTRONOMICALLY-correct Orbital Calendar:GaiaLuna Time-Space Map to really show the interconnections
of Sun, Earth, Moon and planets to our yearly cycles..."
"...now includes Mayan/Gregorian Concordance (GMT correlation) with glyphs." by Nancy Baumgarten.
"...in front of an enraged bull Fear AMISSIO Lost, Missing objects, Tricky...
...a man beating a drum disunity AMISSIO Lost, Missing objects, Tricky..."
"This is Sir John Woodroffe's (Arthur Avalon) introduction to a Sanskrit edition of the Kaulavalinirnaya in Sanskrit...
...The Thirteenth Chapter speaks of Homa. It is necessary to have the ground where the Homa is to be performed carefully examined by an expert in Vastuvidya (Science for ascertaining the 'character of the ground)..."
"Saint Jnaneshvara was a great philosopher, poet and saint of Maharashtra who lived in 13th century.
..Now let us see how Vastuvidya or architecture is treated in Jnaneshvari - veshma prakara nagara racana vastu samjnitam - says Bhrigusamhita, we are going to visualise the conception of house in the days of Jnaneshvara with the help of images in his celebrated work.."
article by V. L. Manjul
_ Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India _
in HERE-NOW4U online magazine (subject : philosophy)
"...Cultural synthesis and reconciliation, two important faces of the culture of Kerala, found expression in the teachings of Shankaracharya.
Christianity, introduced in Kerala in the first century A.D. by St. Thomas, also had substantial following among the people.
Kerala’s contribution to religious and secular architecture is significant. The Tantrasamuchaya, Vastuvidya, Manushyalaya Chandrika and Silapratna are some acknowledged works on architecture..."
article By Mohan Maitray
Abridged summary of paper given by Paul Devereux at the "WEGE DES GEISTES - WEGE DER KRAFT
(Ways of Spirit - Ways of Power)" conference in October, 1996, in Germany.
A website dedicated to the Aztec Calendar :
"...The tonalpohualli, or day-count, has been called a sacred calendar because its main
purpose is that of a divinatory tool. It divides the days and rituals between the gods.
For the Aztec mind this is extremely important. Without it the world would soon come to an end.
According to Aztec cosmology, the universe is in a very delicate equilibrium..."
(from the introduction)
Cette page dédiée au "tonalpohualli : calendrier divinatoire sacré
de 260 jours..." est une adaptation en français du très beau site
de René Voorburg sur le calendrier aztèque (www.azteccalendar.com).
Site bilingue (français et Occitan) sur La Buffatière(*), carnaval traditionnel de Saint Sever (Sud Aveyron, France) : "Il était une fois, bâti dans un trou perdu, un petit village peuplé d'irréductibles buffatiers. Ils ont su repousser maintes et maintes attaques..." Diaporama et video en ligne pour vous en faire une idée...
La buffatière de Saint-sever du Moustier, traditions et poèmes, édité par le comité des fêtes de saint-sever-du-moustier et Boustrophedon. Août 1993. ISBN 2-909775-01-1.
Tradition vivante oblige, le petit village aveyronnais si convivial et dynamique de Saint Sever du Moustier est aussi résolument tourné vers le futur, version technopôle : il abrite en effet une pépinère d'entreprises réunie en un bouquet high-tech réuni autour d'Alef Multimedia [ http://www.alef.org ], laquelle abrite aussi sur son serveur les pages Web d'artisants locaux tels la Poterie de Lucante, ou les éditions Boustrophedon, ainsi que plusieurs sites associatifs.
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