Sentence examples for divination to from inspiring English sources

Besides prayers and invocations, means of communication with the divine include the interpretation of dreams and especially the practice of lubuko (divination) to consult the will of the ancestors before any important decision or to know the causes of misfortune.

The program note explains that Mr. Badolo was telling the story of his great-great-grandfather's use of divination to start a family (and also that Mr. Badolo had used divination to arrange his composition).

Author made up his mind simply to go to the Polo Ground on the night of the fight, leaving all the arduous divination to others.

It's too bad that Mr. Cage couldn't tap into those same powers of divination to save himself from making yet another inexplicably bad choice in roles.

Augurs (divinatory personages) had a powerful influence on state religious beliefs and practices, especially in divination to ascertain the will of the gods and the blessing of the crops.

Music of Changes dates from 1951, the watershed year in John Cage's development, when he began to eliminate any element of personal choice in his compositions by relying on indeterminacy – in this case the I Ching, the Chinese book of divination – to generate his music.

So citizens are not to justify their political decisions by appeal to divination, or to complex and disputed economic or psychological theories.

Providing estimates resorts as much to the art of divination as to rational considerations.

For example in the Catholic religion all forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.

They prayed to Buddhist and Shinto gods (every vessel carried a shrine), and they prepared divination papers to find out where they were.

Diagnosis by divination helps to inform people with diabetes about their illness and reinforces their help seeking behaviour to treating themselves either through traditional medicine or through biomedicine.