2007-09-21 20:24:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Geomancy originally was casting soil on the ground and observing the marks and divining the future from it. Later it became the practice of making random marks in the soil with one's finger or a wand. This was a very widespread form of divination. There are indications in the Bible, John 8:6 that Jesus may have practiced this. When the Pharisees questioned him about the woman taken in adultery, he wrote with his finger on the ground.
Later, it began to mean divining by any objects cast on the ground.
2007-09-21 20:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the art of 'reading soil'. some people use it to predict the futur , they loook at patterns in the mud / sand that is thrown on the ground.
Its a bit like astronomy except on a smaller scale.
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2007-09-21 20:29:17 · answer #2 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋