<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">    <META NAME="DODECHEDRON" CONTENT="Medieval geomancy">    <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.04 [en] (Win95; I) [Netscape]">    <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Jean-Pierre Mouls">    <META NAME="Classification" CONTENT="medieval litterature and on-line divination.">    <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="geomantic handbook, geomantic museum, online divination, geomantic Atlas">    <META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="geomancy, medieval geomancies, Cornelius Agrippa, Gerard of Cremona, geomantic shield, astrological square, astronomical geomancy, oracular simulation, free online divination, geomance, geomantia, geomanteia, geomantie, geomantica, geomanticam, ars punctatora, ilm al-raml, rabolion, Fa, Ifa"> <TITLE>SAMARKAND Image Map Page</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFCC99" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FF0000" BACKGROUND="goldlf.jpg"> <div align="center"> <I><H3>Dodechedron Bookmarks<H3></I>  <!-- Image tags modified by LiveImage for Client Side Image Map insertion --> <IMG SRC="samark.gif" USEMAP="#SAMARK" BORDER=0 WIDTH=583 HEIGHT=358></P> <MAP NAME="SAMARK"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="5,12,105,46" HREF="#L1"  ALT="Gomancie arabe et maghrbine (Al Berberi - Khalaf)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="126,11,206,46" HREF="#L2" ALT="Gomancie provenale (Santalla - Guilhem)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="313,15,372,48" HREF="#L3"  ALT="Gomancie italienne (latine)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="394,13,499,37" HREF="#L4"  ALT="Sources islamiques de Perse (Les Soufis)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="501,15,572,59" HREF="#L5"  ALT="Sources chinoises (Ji Jing & Gnomon divinatoire)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="7,60,139,91" HREF="#L6" ALT="Gomancie arabe  Omeyyade & Califat de Cordoue"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="6,101,102,129" HREF="#L7" ALT="Gomancie arabe & byzantine"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="8,163,75,199" HREF="#L8" ALT="Gomancie brsilienne (Orisha)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="94,337,237,353" HREF="#L9"  ALT="Gomancie africaine (Fa)"> <AREA SHAPE=RECT COORDS="352,337,524,357" HREF="#L10"  ALT="Gomancie malgache (Sikidy)"> </MAP>  </div> <DIV STYLE = "text-align:justify;"> |<A HREF="#L1">Gomancie maghrbine</A>| |<A HREF="#L2">Gomancie provenale</A>| |<A HREF="#L3">Gomancie italienne</A>| |<A HREF="#L4">Sources de Perse</A>| |<A HREF="#L5">Sources chinoises</A>| |<A HREF="#L6">Sources Omeyyades</A>| |<A HREF="#L7">Sources byzantines</A>| |<A HREF="#L8">Gomancie brsilienne</A>| |<A HREF="#L9">Gomancie africaine</A>| |<A HREF="#L10">Gomancie malgache</A>| |<A HREF="#L11">Histoire contemporaine</A>| |<A HREF="#L12">Logiciels Libres & Sharewares</A>|  |<A HREF="#L13">Histoire mdivale & Bibliographies</A>| |<A HREF="#L14">Divers</A>|  <P> <HR> <P>  L'illustration ci-dessus et sa lgende sont directement inspire de la "<I>Carte du voyage gomantique</I>" qui illustre le stimulant chapitre "Ecrits des Pierres sur le Chemin" du livre <BR><U>"Gomancie, Pratiques et interprtations"</U> par <B>Philippe Dubois</B>, 1986, Albin Michel  (<I>Chap. II, p. 41</I>).  <P> &nbsp;<P> <U>Cette carte donne l'instantan de la rpartition gographique de la gomancie et synthtise sa diffusion historique</U> (par les flches noires) : <BR>  "<I>Feng (vent) et Shui (eau)  signifient en chinois "lieu gomantique"...  La diffusion de cette pratique divinatoire a t trs importante. On la retrouve aussi bien en Extrme Orient, aux Indes,  Madagascar, en Afrique ou en Amrique du Sud qu' Byzance ou en Europe, o certaines universits ont mme dvelopp un enseignement spcifiquement gomantique.</I>" Rsum pour le journal "<B>Le Monde</B>", par <B>Jean-Michel Dumay</B>, de l'mission "<U>L'homme entre ciel et terre</U>" diffuse par <B>France-Culture</B> (srie "Les chemins de la connaissance").  <P> &nbsp;<P> <HR> <P>   <A NAME="L1">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie arabe et maghrebine</DIV></U></H2>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.projectduat.com/hall-of-records/members/records/6.html">The Hall of Records WWW</A>Record n 6 :<BR> <I>Early 13th Century Islamic Geomancy Device : Ancient Hyperdimensional Psychotronics ? "..This device has been known for locating tombs and chambers under the ground..."</I>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L2">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie provenale (Santalla - Guilhem)</DIV></U></H2>  <p>&nbsp;</p> <LI> <A HREF="mg2meyer.htm">Traits provenaux de gomancie / P. MEYER</A> [<FONT COLOR=#0000ff><U>Second pome de Maestre G[uilhem</U></FONT> (extrait)]. <p>&nbsp;</p> C'est en 1897 que <B>Paul Meyer</B> a publi les "Traits en vers provenaux sur l'Astrologie et la gomancie" ( dans Romania, XXVI.) o figure ce <U>texte extrait du second pome de Maitre Guilhem</U>, pome dont <B>Theodor Ebneter</B> a plus rcemment donn la transcription intgrale (dans "Pomes sur les signes gomantiques en ancien provenal, Urs Graf-Verlag 1955).    <p>&nbsp;</p>  <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L3">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie italienne (latine)</DIV></U></H2>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.fut.es/~apym/toledo.html">Toledo and All That</A>  <BR> Negotiating the Frontier  (unpublished work in progress)  Toledo and All That   Anthony Pym 1998 <P>  "...<I>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</I>...<BR> ...<I>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</I>..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06468a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: GERARD OF CREMONA</A>  <BR> "...| 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..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/printable/2/0,5722,37242,00.html">Encyclopdia Britannica on Gerard Of Cremona</A> <BR>  "...and Arabic writers into Latin. Gerard went to Toledo to learn Arabic in..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/6-6.html">The      Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy</A> by Jacob Burckhardt (translated by S.G.C. Middlemore, 1878) <BR> Part Six : MORALITY AND RELIGION.<BR> Influence of Ancient Superstition.<BR> "<I>But in another way, and that dogmatically, antiquity exercised perilous influence. It imparted to the Renaissance its own forms of superstition</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L4">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Sources islamiques de Perse (Les Soufis)</DIV></U></H2> <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.afrocom.org/devin/pregeo.htm">Prsentation de Geomancie</A> "...<I>Le mot gomancie vient du grec g, terre et manti'a, divination. Son origine remonte  la Perse ancienne.</I>.."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://140.190.128.190/merton/zos/sufi_mystica.html">SUFI TRADITIONS</A>  by Zos Imos <BR> "<I>The following is a brief summary or basic overview of Sufism as i understand it, through study, practice and experience</I>..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~Solarensis/sufi3.html">Sufism</A>   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/sufus.htm">The Sufi      Study Circle -- Reading List</A>    <p>&nbsp;</p> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L5">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Sources chinoises (Ji Jing & Gnomon divinatoire)</DIV></U></H2>  <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.mension.com/oracle/frncrt1.htm">The Oracle - ARS PUNCTATORIA</A> _The I Ching and Geomancy by William Fancourt_  "...<I>The purpose of this article is to outline the main similarities between geomantic divination and the I Ching, and to note the ways in which geomancy was adapted to serve the needs of three quite different cultures; the Islamic world, tribal West Africa, and Europe</I>..."  _ First Published in No. 1 of <A HREF="http://www.mension.com/oracle/article.htm">The Oracle</A> _ The Journal of Yi Jing Studies (Spring 1995)_ <U><B>Des sources chinoises  l'origine de la gomancie arabe _ou des sources communes_ ne sont qu'une hypothse non encore explor&eacute;e</B>... </U>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.paideusis.matco.ro/n1ms.html">Paideusis - Journal for      Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies Volume 1 - 1998</A>  THE YIJING-BOOK OF CHANGES AS A PRAGMATIC METAPHOR FOR CHANGE THEORY.. <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.mension.com/">M-Comp, Home Page</A> I Ching, Alchemy, Astrology, and Kabbalah.  <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMGeomancy.html">EARTH MYSTERIES      _Geomancy_</A> "...<I>In the 19th century, however, geomancy came to be applied to the Chinese practice of feng shui by which the location and orientation of houses and tombs was determined with close regard to the topography of the local landscape</I>..." article by Chris Witcombe.  <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://kizuna.ins.cwru.edu/asia110/projects/Edo2/edo2.html">An Introduction to Chinese Cosmology</A> <BR>  "...<I>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</I>... "  <p>&nbsp;</p> <LI><A HREF="http://vndichly.8k.com">Vietnamese Science of Changes</A> <BR> The webmaster of this new page asked me to "...<I>refer to the Vietnamese Science of Changes...http://scienceofchanges.freeservers.com</I>..."; <BR> So do I.<P>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>VIT NAM KHOA</B><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DICHL&Yacute; HOC<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR>      &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>THE VIETNAMESE SCIENCE OF CHANGES</B><BR>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Thu' Ng&oacute;</U> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <U>Gidi Thiu</U> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	<U>Qu&aacute;'i Ngh~ia</U> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <U>L&yacute; S</U> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <U>VNI Fonts</U> <P>  <B><U>Remark</U> : <FONT COLOR=#0000ff>Page contents, writen in Vietnamese, are better view  with VNI Fonts.</FONT> </B><P>  <U>Note about Vietnamese Geomancy</U> :<BR> "...<I>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</I>..." <BR> Stephen D.R. <B>FEUCHTWANG</B>, <I><U>An anthopological analysis of Chinese geomancy</U></I>, Vithagna, 1974. (p. 228) <BR>  <P>&nbsp;  <LI><A HREF="http://www.onlineClarity.co.uk">Clarity: I Ching readings and resources</A> : Very nice site by <u>Hilary Barett</u> offering both an "<i><font color=#ff0000>I Ching consulting service</font></i>" <u>and a FREE</u> "<i><font color=#ff0000>Consult I Ching yourself</font></i>"  <u>OPTION</u>, with full texts of two classical English translations shown in a <u>clever presentation</u>...    <P>&nbsp;  <LI><A HREF="http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/divination.html">Tibetan art of divination </A> <BR> "...<I>Tibetan art of divination By Dorjee Tseten Tibetan Bulletin March - April</I>..."    <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.3dglobe.com/fs/index.htm">Geomancy.Net - The Largest      Feng Shui Network & Resources by Cecil Lee</A> Chinese geomancy online : auspicious dates following your Chinese sign...  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://users.knsi.com/~tbender/chap2.html">chap2.html</A> from the <I><B>Tom Bender HomePage ;</B></I> <BR> Sustainable Architecture,<BR> Strategic Planning,<BR> Feng-shui ;<BR>  "...<I>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</I>..." (<U>article</U> by <B>TOM BENDER</B>)    <p>&nbsp;</p>  <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L6">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie arabe  Omeyyade & Califat de Cordoue</DIV></U></H2> <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://salam.muslimsonline.com/~azahoor/indext1.html">Muslim Scientists      In The Middle Ages</A>:"...<I>their names are Latinized or changed with the effect of obscuring their identity and origin, and their association with the Islamic Civilization</I> ...", by Dr. A. Zahoor  :<BR> "<I>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)</I>." (article <B><I>Jabir Ibn Haiyan [Geber]</I></B>).  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/IbnArabi.html#articles">Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi</A> "<I>Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Known as Muhyiddin (the Revivifier of Religion) and the Shaykh al-Akbar (the Greatest Master), he was born in 1165 AD into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain, the center of an extraordinary flourishing and cross-fertilization of Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought.</I>.." by The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society (Oxford).  <p>&nbsp;</p>   <P>   <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L7"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie arabe & byzantine</DIV></U></H2>  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/science/parshall/algebra.html">The      Art of Algebra</A>  by Karen H. Parshall : <BR> "... <I>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</I>..." (from the introduction)  <P> &nbsp; <P>    <LI><A HREF="http://www.saundersandcooke.com/quadrant.html">The Astrolabe Quadrant</A> gallery by Saunders and Cooke (Astrolab makers)<BR> "<I>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, <B>Gerardo of Cremona</B> left the Iberian Peninsula for the north of Europe at the end of the XIIIth century</I>..."  <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L8">  <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie brsilienne (Orisha)</DIV></U></H2>  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.candomble.com/index.shtml">WWW.CANDOMBLE.COM</A> - Um pedao da frica no Brasil - The ancient African tradition in Brasil. <BR>  "...<I>Afro-Brazilian cults... in different areas of Brazil with different rites and local names derived from diverse African traditions: Candombl in Bahia1, Xang in Pernambuco and Alagoas2, Tambor de Mina in Maranho and Par3, Batuque in Rio Grande do Sul4, and Macumba in Rio de Janeiro</I>..." (from the introduction). <BR>  I found here an interessing article on <B>Pierre FATUMBI Verger</B> (MAY/26/99).  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.artechock.de/film/programm/f/pifave.htm">Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro entre dos mundos </A> <U>Brasilien Film</U> 1998 :  "...<I>Documentary on the life and work of French ethnographer Pierre Verger (1902 Paris/France - 1996, Salvador de Bahia/Brazil) whose studies revealed the reciprocal cultural influences between Brazil and the region of Benin and Nigeria in Africa: the cultural traditions brought from Africa to Brazil by the black slaves but also, and here is the originality of his work, the Brazilian influences in Africa brought back by former slaves who returned to the continent. Narrated and presented by Gilberto Gil (Brazils foremost African-Brazilian music artist) the documentary was shot in locations in Republic of Benin, Paris, Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It includes Pierre Vergers last interview given to Gilberto Gil one day before his death</I>..."    <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/nigeria/yorubarel2.html">Colonialism      and Yoruba religion</A>  "<I>In the early twentieth century, the traditional religions of the Yoruba altered significantly as a result of European rule</I>..." Article by Hal Horton.  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1322/page9.html">Il      Ax Op Afonj - African Religion</A>  "<I>The word 'candombl' is synonymous with african religion...  Among the slaves were 'Babalorixs' and Iyalorixs. These priests created Africa in Brazil</I>..."  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.expresso.pt/ed1361/v-gente-fora.asp">Gente de Fora</A>   "<I>Me de santo em Wall Street...  Desesperada e j sem saber que fazer, a direco da Bolsa de Valores de Nova Iorque decidiu recorrer  bruxaria para se livrar da m sorte.</I> " Brazilian Magazine Gente de Fora (november 1999).  <P> &nbsp; <P>    <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>  <A NAME="L9"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie africaine (Fa)</DIV></U></H2> <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.cultural-expressions.com/ifa/ifahistory.htm">Yoruba      History Page</A> by Fa'lofin. "...<I>Ifa theology states that the creation of humankind arose in the sacred city of Ile Ife where Oduduwa created dry land from water. Much later on an unknown number of Africans migrated from Mecca to Ile Ife. At this point the Eastern Africans and Western Africans synergized</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/VodouFA.html">FA, the god with 16 eyes</A> <BR> "...<I>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</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/nv/ifadutch/page09.html">A dispensary      of Ifa Texts</A> "<I>Many African and European divination systems employ the same 16 basic and 256 extended patterns that are used in Yoruba <BR>Ifa, but the Yoruba's certainly deserve the credit for adorning their system with an enormous amount of enlightening texts...<BR> Nederlands Ifa Genootschap bases its teachings and practices on African and not on American traditions</I>." (Dutch Church of Ifa)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/nv/ifadutch/">Nederlands Ifa Genootschap,      Jaap Verduijn's Dutch Church of Ifa</A> "...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..."<BR> -"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)  <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://www.middlebury.edu/~atherton/AR325/divination/index.html">African      Art Divination</A>   A short general article about Yoruba divination (kola nuts in Fa geomancy).   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/VodouFA.html#history">IFA-FA</A> : "FA, The God with 16 eyes", by Tony Smith. <BR> "<I>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." and also...Sikidy, Original African history</I>... ;<BR> "...<I>The Dogon also know that Saturn has rings</I>;... "  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.agate.net/~ile/poetry/poetry.html">Ifa Divination Poetry</A>  by Wande Abimbola. <BR> "...<I>To Ifa belongs all the four days created by the divinities on earth</I>..."  <P> &nbsp; <P>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/2327/gen3/diviner.html">The sangoma tradition of Southern Africa</A>  by Wim van Binsbergen (article)  "...<I>divination with four tablets of wood, ivory or bone. These 10 cm long flat tablets (Hakata, Dithlao) are cast onto the ground, and since they are marked to be distinguished from each other and to tell front from back, they can take 2 to the power 4 = 16 different positions. These positions are named, interpreted according to several dimensions (ancestors; sorcery and witchcraft; the body; relations between living kin; wealth; travelling, etc.), using a detailed interpretative catalogue whose antecedents ramify into the Indian Ocean cultures, West Africa, Arabian ilm al-raml</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.seanet.com/~efunmoyiwa/ifa.html">If</A>  A Brief Introduction to If <BR> Odu: The Basis of If   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.agate.net/~ile/iif/ileife.html">Ile Ife - Where the      world began</A>  "<I>Ile Ife in the Yoruba creation myth is the spot where Obatala arrived on earth, having climbed down a chain from heaven, charged by God to make the first man</I>... " _This is the name chosen for a Cultural center in Philadelelphia providing films and exhibitions about the Yoruba culture and ancient Nigeria _.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.yoruba.org/YorubaMa.htm">Isokan Yoruba Magazine</A>  Only the year 1997 is online. In the Summer 1997 edition, there is an interview of <B>Wole Soyinka</B>, on Yoruba Religion :   "...<I>A traditional babalawo was a poor man</I>..."    <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.concentric.net/~Jeffnaus/kings.htm">The Kings of Dahomey</A> "<I>Dahomey, with its capital at Abomey, was the most important kingdom in Benin's history. A major exporter of slaves to the New World during</I> ..."  <BR> "...<I>In additions, there was a court-appointed Bokono or Fa seer, or diviner, who was consulted regularly before any major decision was made</I>..."    <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/2327/gen3/mankala/mankala1.html">Board-games and divination in global cultural history</A><BR> a theoretical, comparative and historical perspective on mankala and geomancy in Africa and Asia, by Wim van Binsbergen   <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.eyeofatum.com/ORISHAYORUBA.html">ORISHA & YORUBA</A> YORUBA LINKS, RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS ...   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://isizoh.net/afrel/atr_bibliography.htm">Bibliography on African      Traditional Religion</A>  Compiled by Chidi Denis Isizoh.   <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>   <A NAME="L10"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Gomancie malgache (Sikidy)</DIV></U></H2> <P> &nbsp; <P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.webltd.com/madagascar-guide/html/croyance2.htm">Madagascar      - Croyances et Traditions</A>  "...<I>Une mthode appele "sikidy" est utilise pour dterminer l'avenir. Les prdictions sont analyses et influenceront les dcisions et autre actions de la vie communautaire</I>..."  <P> &nbsp; <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>   <A NAME="L11"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Histoire contemporaine</DIV></U></H2> <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.multimania.com/charnay/html/golden.htm">La Golden Dawn</A>  article HISTOIRE, TECHNIQUE ET SURVIVANCE (occultisme et histoire) par Hugues de Charnay : "<I>Ce qui est fascinant quand on s'approche de l'Ordre Hermtique de l'Aube Dore c'est de voir combien cette structure si brve ... a effectu une gigantesque synthse d'enseignements contradictoires ou inusits, et a influenc toutes les coles du XX sicle</I>..."    Cet article donne d'intressants repres sur l'occultime de la fin du XIXme sicle et ses ramifications occidentales contemporaines (sotrisme)...  <P> &nbsp; <P>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.leapinglaughter.org/equinox/vol1/no2/eqi02010.html">A      HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY</A>  by Aleister Crowley (XIX th. century, <U>occultism</U>)   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/lib96.html">Al. CROWLEY GEOMANCY</A>    <DT>&nbsp; (a "printer friendly" version).  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.geomancy.org/earth_en/earth_en.html">Mid-Atlantic geomancy</A>    "<I>Our re-awareness of the energies of the Earth has re-emerged slowly in the twentieth century. In the 1920s German dowsers found 'Krebs' Houses - places where people got more cancer than their neighbors. Dowsers found underground veins of water Crossing under these houses and not under their neighbors. Also, in the 1920s Alfred Watkins of Herefordshire, England, found that ancient holy sites lined up in straight lines</I>... " (article Earth Energies)  <P> &nbsp; <P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/wil-plat/npa-hp.htm">New      Platonism and Alchemy</A> A Sketch of the Doctrines and Principal Teachers of the Eclectic or Alexandrian School; also An Outline of the Interior Doctrines of the Alchemists of the Middle Ages.<BR> By ALEXANDER WILDER. (<U>theosophy</U>)   <P> <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER> <P>   <A NAME="L12"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Logiciels Libres & Sharewares</DIV></U></H2> <P> <DT><LI><A HREF="http://www.chez.com/theuds/geomanci.htm">THe UDS-Gomancie</A> Ce site propose un Freeware (sous Windows) qui permet de dresser automatiquement un tableau gomantique avec interprtation en fonction de 16 domaines de questions possibles, en franais, en anglais et en portugais.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.rosemarywest.com/rlinks.shtml">Divination Information      and Links from Rosemary West</A> A site about fortune telling, with many divination Sharewares (and freewares !) to download. Member of The Divination Ring.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.multimania.com/gbstyrax/geomancie/geomancie.htm">La      Gomancie</A> Les bases de la gomancie expliques simplement, en franais (tirage et interprtation) :  "...<I>nous ne verrons qu'une forme simplifie de Gomancie: la rponse  une question par une seule figure</I>..."<BR>  Une simulation divinatoire est galement propose en tlchargement : "<I>GoSim : ce programme (freeware) vous permettra de faire des tirages divinatoires de gomancie le plus simplement du monde</I>."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.anshare.com/annuaire/pc/08.htm">Shareware & freeware      PC Esotrisme</A>  "...<I>Gomancie [v 1/1b] Freeware <BR> Permet de s'initier  la Gomancie, art divinatoire trs ancien. Pour ce qui connaissent dj, ce logiciel leur sera trs prcieux pour gagner un temps considrable, les calculs (trs longs) tant automatiques.</I>" Auteur : <U>CAROFF Gilles</U>.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://astrolabes.org/">The Astrolabe</A><BR> by James E. Morrison, has received the Britannica Internet Guide award.<BR> "...<I>This page provides a very general overview of astrolabe principles... <BR> ...The astrolabe in the picture was made by the French scientist and craftsman Jean Fusoris in about 1400</I>...<BR> ...<I>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</I>..."   <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER>  <P>  <A NAME="L13"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Histoire mdivale & Bibliographies</DIV></U></H2> <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/#geomancy">Medieval      Geomancy</A>  Elizabeth Z. Bennett's site about "<I>medieval and Renaissance geomancy. (Geomancy is a medieval Islamic form of divination that, like many other medieval Islamic sciences, became popular in the West in the thirteenth century.) The site currently includes a seventeenth-century English text on geomancy, an explanation of medieval geomantic practice, an annotated bibliography, and -- for amusement -- a Perl program which generates a geomantic tableau (the interpretation is left as an exercise for the student.) I hope eventually to add translations of the medieval Latin texts as well</I>."   <P>&nbsp;<P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/de_meung.html">Jean de Meung - The Remonstrance of Nature</A>  "... <I>The <U>Roman de la Rose</U> is one of the great works of 13th Century Literature. It is an extended allegorical poem begun by Guillaume de Lorris and completed by Jean de Meung, in which in a dream vision the Lover wishes to win his Lady, the Rose. Jean de Meung's contribution has a section in which Nature discusses destiny and free will, explains the influence of the heavens and discourses on dreams. In the 16th century a poem, the '<U>Remonstrances de Nature a l'alchymiste errant</U>' was ascribed to Jean de Meung (but most likely was written in the 16th century).</I>  ..."  <P>&nbsp;<P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/h_fre.html">Ron Heisler - The Impact      of Freemasonry on Elizabethan Literature</A>  "...<I>Early in the 16th century Henry Cornelius Agrippa visited England and his friends among the Oxford Humanists - John Colet and Thomas More in particular</I>..."    <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/h_maier.html">Ron Heisler - Michael      Maier and England</A> "...<I>Atalanta Fugiens (1617) may have been deeply inspired by the utopian vision of America</I>..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.si-net.com/~mantis/lecture/geo1.html">Geomancy The Ancient Divination System of Cornelius Agrippa</A>  by Anthony Glenn Agee. Summarized listing (history, cultural diffusion, etc...) presented like a FAQ about geomancy, for a quick but complete panorama.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.si-net.com/~mantis/lecture/geo4.html">Geomancy -The      Ancient Divination System of Agrippa- 16 Tetra Grams Page 2</A>  About the Sixteen Geomantic Tetragrams...  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.accessnewage.com/articles/astro/TLOUIS4.htm">Astrological  Geomancy</A>  Astrological Geomancy  by Anthony Louis. (article) "<I>A system of geomancy linking astrological symbols with figures formed from holes poked in the earth became popular during the Renaissance... I will list the figures next to their complements, and beneath them their associated planet and sign according to Agrippa</I>."  <p>&nbsp;</p> <LI><A HREF="http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/pedagos/dossitsm/souranti.htm">BnF: Tous les savoirs du monde : Antiques (1)</A> <BR>   "...<I>traduction latine de Grard de Crmone, une large postrit</I>...."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/fluddb_7.html">Fludd - Utriusque      cosmi historia</A> Forepage of Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi historia..., Oppenheim 1617. (Illustrated Table of content with the word "<I>geomanticam</I>")  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.dwc.edu/users/wellman/Fludd.html">Fludd- Utriusque      cosmi historia</A>  "<I>Robert Fludd, The Macrocosmos</I>. (Well known picture) <I>from the first volume of his encyclopedic work titled Utriusque cosmi</I>.."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/h_fludd.html">Ron Heisler - Robert      Fludd A Picture in Need of Expansion</A> "...<I>William H. Huffman's Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance largely replaces J.B. Craven's erratic, and sometimes unreliable biography, which has dominated the field since 1902</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.librarius.com/">Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) - The Canterbury      Tales</A> Voir le passage nigmatique de Troilus et Criseyde qui cite <I><B>Fortuna Major</B></I> et celui du Conte du chevalier, qui fait r&eacute;f&eacute;rence &agrave; <I><B>Puella</B></I> et <I><B>Rubeus</B></I>, deux autres figures gomantiques.  <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol9/9ch4.html">Chroniques de Hainault</A> <B> "...<I>During the year 1447 Simon Nockart, a councilor to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, observed the presentation to his master of a Chroniques de Hainault, a newly translated version of the half-century old Annales Historiae illustrium Principum Hannoniae by the Franciscan monk and schoolmaster Jacques de Guise (1334-1399)... He fumished Hainault with a Trojan origin....according to Guise, was the Phrygian prince Bavo, a nephew of Laomedon</I>..." (<U>Article</U>)   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.uni-muenster.de/Fruehmittelalter/Publikationen/fmst/">Frhmittelalterliche Studien</A> <B>  "...<I>Besitzverzeichnis der Genter Sankt-Bavo-Abtei von ca. 800 (Clm 6333)... ...Gregory of Tours and the Myth of the Trojan Origins of the Franks</I>..." ( A <U>bibliographic</U> reference for "les Chroniques de Hainault", in a list about medieval studies ).  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.avesta.org/solomon/arbatel.htm">Arbatel of Magic</A>  <BR> "...<I>The <U>Arbatel de Magia Veterum</U> first appeared in Latin in 1575.  It is mentioned by <B>John Dee</B> 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 <B>Robert Turner</B>.  Diagram on title page did not appear in Turner's edition, but is here  supplied from edition of <B>Andreas Luppius, Wesel, 1686</B></I>..." <BR> (<U>article</U> by <B>JHP</B>)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://shift.merriweb.com.au/books/browne/musebook.html">Rare and generally Unknown Books</A><BR>  "...<I><U>circumnavigatio</U>. [A defence of <B>Arnoldus de Villa Nova</B>...   ...<U>Arternidori Oneirocritici Geograpbin. Pythagoras</U> de Mari Rubro.  The Works of <B>Confutius</B> the famous Philosopher of China, translated  into Spanish</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI> L'<A HREF="http://www.bnf.fr/cgi-bin/bnf/fiche?i8_0084c.htm&/enluminures/texte/tx2_07.htm&L'ATLAS+CATALAN">Homme      Zodiacal</A> (From L'ATLAS CATALAN. Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale de France. Paris)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.astrology.net/parkers/asteur.html">History of Astrology,      by Derek and Julia Parker</A>  article ASTROLOGY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE <BR> "<I>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</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://explorers.whyte.com/astrol.htm"> Astronomy and Astrology in the 12th century</A><BR> (Article).  "<I><U>The Twelfth century renaissance in general, Hereford in particular</U> : There were many twelfth-century scholars who went to Spain in search of the new Arabic knowledge...  There he encountered <B>Gerard of Cremona</B>, who had translated among many other works <B>Ptolemy's Almagest</B>. 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 "<U>astronomy [and] those sublunary events which seem to serve the higher bodies by a kind of necessary obedience</U>". It was not the only book written at the request of a twelfth century bishop to spread the new learning</I>. "   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <A HREF="http://homepages.iol.ie/~devilkid/medieval_links_page.htm">Medieval      Links Page</A>   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/TLF.html">Nicot's Thresor      Search Form</A> A medieval classic french dictionnary on-line (Chicago University).  <P>&nbsp;<P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/zzcert.htm">Summa Theologica</A> of   St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) : about "Acts  Which Pertain Especially to Certain Men" (prophecy)  <P>&nbsp;<P>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/religiologiques/recen/eli.html">Mircea      Eliade, Cosmologie et Alchimie babyloniennes</A> Dans ce dernier livre <B>Micea Eliade</B> "... <I>revendique le droit  une autre lecture que des vestiges monstrueux de superstition; et prfre y voir une vritable science cosmologique et sotriologique...Tel est le sens de cette magie: accder  la perfection et  l'autonomie en se servant de l'exemple des forces du cosmos...</I>" article d'Alain Guyard.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/AGEDE/">The Ancient Greek Esoteric      Doctrine of the Elements</A> by John Opsopaus : <BR> "<I>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 Anr), that is, a Iatromantis (healer-seer, "shaman") and Magos (priest-magician)</I>..." (from the introduction)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.medievalhistory.net/mdvlh/islamica.htm">The ISLAMIC FOUNDATION OF THE RENAISSANCE</A><BR>  "...<I>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</I>..." <BR>  Hugh Bibbs, B.A. Bowen Island Canada  <p>&nbsp;</p>     <LI><A HREF="http://cura.free.fr/docum/03oresme.html">Nicole Oresme : Un regard lucide sur l'astrologie</A> - par <B>Patrice Guinard</B>. <BR>  <U><B>Nicole Oresme</B> : Le livre de divinacions (extraits)</U><P>  "...choses. Les autres sciences sont geomance, ydromance, et telx sors,..."<BR>  "...<I>Nicole (ou Nicolas) Oresme (1322?-1382) est n en Normandie. Il suit les cours,  Paris, du clbre philosophe et physicien Jean Buridan, originaire de Bthune et thoricien de l'impetus. Il enseigne la thologie  Paris entre 1358 et 1361. L'archidiacre de Bayeux est nomm vque de Lisieux en 1377.[1]       Oresme est un esprit universel : thologien, philosophe, conomiste, gomtre, physicien. Il traduit pour Charles V divers traits d'Aristote, dont la Politique, les conomiques et la premire traduction de l'thique  Nicomaque en langue vernaculaire, et commente le trait De l'me</I>..."    <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.ojardimhermetico.hpg.com.br">Le Jardin Hermtique</A><BR> Une excellente page sur l'Alchimie et les arts divinatoires, sur ce site portuguais bilingue, en version anglaise ou portugaise.  An excellent homepage in English for this Portuguese bilingual website about Alchemy and divinatory arts.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <HR WIDTH="95%" ALIGN=CENTER>  <HR><P>  <A NAME="L14"> <H2><U><DIV align="center">Divers</DIV></U></H2> <P> <DT><LI><A HREF="http://www.hanksville.org/sand/">A Line in the Sand</A>  <BR> This Amerindian page shows "art and artifacts, rituals, and culture of Native American Indians" and "sacred and historical sites." <BR> "<I>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.</I>"   <p>&nbsp;</p>   <DT><A HREF="http://www.enfolded.net/synchronicity.htm">SYNCHRONICITY</A> That webpage is "where will be explored ideas related to synchronicity" :   "..The classic definition of synchronicity:		 	Carl Jung, who coined the term, synchronicity, defined it in his classic work, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, as  ...a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved."	  <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://www.unm.edu/~pbarlow/synch.html">SYNCHRONICITY-L </A>  (Archived) forum for the discussion of synchronicity. Co-owned by Patricia Barlow-Irick and The "Wiley Turtle" : "Synchronicity, the occurrence of meaningful coincidence, is the foundation from which we threaded our discussion through science, meaning, metaphysics, and the happenings of our daily lives..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~One_3/index.html">SynchronicityResearch      Home Page</A>   <p>&nbsp;</p>   <LI><A HREF="http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/">Princeton Engineering Anomalies      Research</A> Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.unm.edu/~pbarlow/syrefs.htm">BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MATERIALS      RELATED TO SYNCHRONICITY</A>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/">Museum of Talking Boards</A>   An Online Museum of Ouija Boards :<BR> "Ouija knows all the answers. Weird and mysterious. Surpasses, in its unique results, mind reading, clairvoyance and second sight..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>    <LI><A HREF="http://search.britannica.com/bcom/search/results/1,5843,,00.html?p_query0=divination&chooseSearch=0">Britannica.com      on divination</A> [query via <A HREF="http://britannica.com/">Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line</A>]      <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05048b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: DIVINATION</A> <BR> "<I>Divination The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden... ...or evil spirits. Hence the word divination has a sinister signification</I>.... "   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://members.aol.com/auriol2/sybille.htm">Sybille </A> Article Par le Docteur Bernard Auriol crit pour le Dico de l'Esotrisme, pour lequel L'tude de Marcel Conche a t finalement prfre par l'diteur (PUF) :  "Sybille... Le premier auteur  en avoir parl est Hraclite d'Ephse. Suivront Euripide, Aristophane, et Platon. D'aprs Lactance, Sibylla viendrait de "Sios Bolla" via "Dios Boul" (conseil ou volont de Dieu)..."    <p>&nbsp;</p>   <DT><A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/terrastr.html">The Theatre of Terrestrial      Astronomy</A> A text tranlated from "de Lapide Philosophorum", XVII th. century.  "...<I>this Art (*) found its way into Persia, Egypt, and Chaldaea. The Hebrews called it the Cabbala, the Persians Magia, and the Egyptians Sophia, and it was taught in the schools together with Theology; it was known to Moses, Abraham, Solomon, and the Magi who came to Christ from the East</I>..." <BR>  (*) Alchemy  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://search.britannica.com/bcom/search/results/1,5843,,00.html?p_query0=Pythagoreans">Britannica.com      on Pythagoreans</A> [query via <A HREF="http://britannica.com/">Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line</A>]     <p>&nbsp;</p>  <DT><LI><A HREF="http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/journals.html">Center      for Archaeoastronomy Journal Contents</A>   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html">EarlyGreekAstronomy</A>   Inventing the Solar System: Early Greek Scientists Struggle to Explain How the Heavens Move  by Ellen N. Brundige.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/9704/geoarte.html">Cincia e Arte</A>   Autora:  Ausonia T.B. Klein Ribeiro  "...<I>Geomancistas a difundiram pelo mundo, e de acrdo com o povo e lugar onde foi implantada adquiriu os nomes mais diversos como: IFA ; SIKIDY ; ILM AL-RAML; AL-KHATT BI-RAML; FENG SHUI; ROBOLION; VOODOO; VASTUVIDYA , F,TUM TUM EL HINDI e outros</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.cpu.lu/gka/ddk.htm">DAS GALLO-RMISCHE PENTAGON-DODEKAEDER</A> by Jos Thiel. ( There is a map of archeological European sites)   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.multimania.com/dodeca/indexfra.htm">dodecaedre</A> "<I>Passionns de mathmatiques, de philosophie, d'art, d'histoire et de musique, nous avons cr ce site dans le but principal de rassembler un maximum d'informations sur le dodcadre</I>."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/sefTorah.html">Sefirot and Torah</A> "...The Sefirot is a pattern of 10 vertices linked by 22 lines..." by Tony Smith's  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/geometry/platonic/">Platonic      solids (Regular polytopes in 3D)</A>   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://plato.evansville.edu/comments/beavers/000002.htm">The 4th      Tetralogy Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Beavers)</A> <BR> Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, by Anthony F. Beavers :<BR> "<I>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</I>..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredtourismlist.html">Sacred Site Tourism</A>  "...<I>Some of these architectural sites have been placed according to the principles of geomancy or ley lines or are constructed according to rules of sacred geometry</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://members.aol.com/janbily/index.htm">Stonehenge, Carnac, megaliths,      stone circles, menhirs & dolmens in Europe</A><BR>   "...<I>Spirals and waves, ancient symbols of the cyclical nature of life, are present in many megalithic carvings</I>..."  (Megalithic Pages, by Jan Bily).  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://web.tin.it/newcom/parma/cun/stonehen.htm">STONEHENGE</A>  "...<I>La storia di Stonehenge ha inizio nella piana di Salisbury, intorno al 2700 a.C., con la realizzazione di un fossato circolare e la posa di una pietra, al di fuori di esso, dell'altezza di circa 5m, chiamata Hell Stone</I>..." (testo di CLAUDIO DALL'AGLIO)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/albion/">Research in Geomancy</A> : A bibliography of readings in sacred space. Compiled by Jeremy Harte.  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,35621+1,00.html">Encyclopdia      Britannica article page on Fortuna</A> [query via <A HREF="http://britannica.com/">Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line</A>]   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.mediaport.net/Magnum/PdM/Mots/hasard.en.html">Portraits      de Mots :  "hasard"</A>  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/ph.html">Some Principles      of Phenomenological Hermeneutics</A> "...<I>We cannot share anyone else's reality except through the mediation of our symbolic world -- that is, through a 'text' of some sort, which text has a context -- in fact, many contexts</I>..." Article by  John Lye.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.csun.edu/~hbmen024/music/litho.html">The Lithophone</A> "...<I>Discovered at Ndnut Lieng Khak village, Darlac, in the Highlands (South Vietnam) on February 2, 1949.  Musicologists concluded that this lithophone existed five thousand years ago. It produces a five-tone scale similar to the Indonesian pe'log, but it is different from the Chinese</I>..." by Kchoang Huey.     <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/maya.htm">The      Maya Calendar</A> <BR> "...<I>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</I>..."    <p>&nbsp;</p> <LI><A HREF="http://www.celestial-dynamics.com">The Orbital Calendar</A>  <BR>An "...<i>ASTRONOMICALLY-correct Orbital Calendar:GaiaLuna Time-Space Map to really show the interconnections  of Sun, Earth, Moon and planets to our yearly cycles</i>..."<BR> "...<i>now includes Mayan/Gregorian Concordance (GMT correlation) with glyphs</i>." by <b>Nancy Baumgarten</b>.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/jung.htm">Modern Man in Search of a Soul</A>, "by Carl Jung, (1933). Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, translated by Cary Baynes. Reproduced here, Chapter IX, The Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology." _Marxist.org Internet Archive_.   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/Kyrei_Du_Lac/scriptorium/lenorman.htm"> Astro-Mythological Tarot of Mlle Lenormand</A> <BR> "...<I>in front of an enraged bull Fear AMISSIO Lost, Missing objects, Tricky... ...a man beating a drum disunity AMISSIO Lost, Missing objects, Tricky</I>..."   <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.hubcom.com/tantric/kaulav.htm">Kaulavalinirnaya Tantra</A>  <BR> "<I>This is <B>Sir John Woodroffe's (Arthur Avalon)</B> introduction to a Sanskrit edition of the <U>Kaulavalinirnaya</U> 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 <U>Vastuvidya (Science for ascertaining the 'character of the ground)</U></I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/house_and_surroundings_in_jnan.htm">HERE-NOW4U :Manjul</A>   <U>House and Surroundings in Jnaneshvari</U> <BR>  "Saint <B>Jnaneshvara</B> was a great philosopher, poet and saint of Maharashtra who lived in 13th century.  ..Now let us see how <U>Vastuvidya</U> or architecture is treated in <U>Jnaneshvari</U> - veshma prakara nagara racana vastu samjnitam - says <B>Bhrigusamhita</B>, we are going to visualise the conception of house in the days of Jnaneshvara with the help of images in his celebrated work.."  <BR>  <U>article</U> by V. L. Manjul <BR> _ Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India _ <BR> in HERE-NOW4U online magazine (<U>subject : philosophy</U>)  <p>&nbsp;</p> <LI><A HREF="www.tribuneindia.com/99sep19/sunday/head3.htm">The Tribune...Sunday Reading</A>  <U>The twain does meet in culture of Kerala</U><BR>   "...<I>Cultural synthesis and reconciliation, two important faces of the culture of <U>Kerala</U>, found expression in the teachings of <B>Shankaracharya</B>.  Christianity, introduced in Kerala in the first century A.D. by <B>St. Thomas</B>, also had substantial following among the people. Keralas contribution to religious and secular architecture is significant. The Tantrasamuchaya, <U>Vastuvidya</U>, Manushyalaya Chandrika and Silapratna are some acknowledged works on architecture</I>..." <BR> <U>article</U> By Mohan Maitray  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.univ-lille3.fr/www/ufr-philo/leibniz1.html">U.F.R. de Philosophie </A> LEIBNIZ : Discours de Mtaphysique.  <I>VI. -Dieu ne fait rien hors d'ordre et il n'est pas mme possible de feindre des vnements  qui ne soient point rguliers </I> : </BR>   "...<I>Les volonts ou actions de Dieu sont communment divises en ordinaires ou extraordinaires.  Mais il est bon de considrer que Dieu ne fait rien hors d'ordre. Ainsi ce qui passe pour  extraordinaire ne l'est qu' l'gard de quelque ordre particulier tabli parmi les cratures.  Car, quant  l'ordre universel, tout y est conforme. Ce qui est si vrai, que non seulement rien  n'arrive dans le monde qui soit absolument irrgulier, mais on ne saurait mme rien feindre de  tel. Car <U>supposons, par exemple, que quelqu'un fasse quantit de points sur le papier  tout  hasard, comme font ceux qui exercent l'art ridicule de la gomance</U>. Je dis qu'il est possible  de trouver une ligne gomtrique dont la notion soit constante et uniforme suivant une certaine  rgle, en sorte que cette ligne passe par tous ces points, et dans le mme ordre que la main  les avait marqus</I>..."  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.acemake.com/PaulDevereux/leylines.html">LEYS/"LEY LINES"</A> <BR> Abridged summary of paper given  by <u>Paul Devereux</u> at the "WEGE DES GEISTES - WEGE DER KRAFT  (Ways of Spirit - Ways of Power)" conference in October, 1996, in Germany.  <P> "<I>...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...</i> " (from the first article by  <u>Paul Devereux</u>)  <P>  "<I>...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)</I>:..."  (from the introduction to the second article by <u>Paul Devereux</u>)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.azteccalendar.com/">Aztec Calendar</A> by <U>Ren Voorburg</U>.<BR> A website dedicated to the Aztec Calendar : <BR>  "...<I>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</I>..."  (from the introduction)  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.americas-fr.com/calendrier/calendar.html">calendrier aztque</A>.  <BR> Cette page ddie au "<I>tonalpohualli : calendrier divinatoire sacr  de 260 jours...</I>" est une <U>adaptation en franais</U> du trs beau site  de <U>Ren Voorburg</U> sur le calendrier aztque (<b>www.azteccalendar.com</b>).  <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.saint-sever.net/buffatiere/francais/acc-fr.html">La Buffatire de Saint Sever - Accueil Franais</A>. (comit des ftes de St Sever du Moustier) <BR> Site bilingue (franais et Occitan) sur La <B><U>Buffatire</U></B> (*), carnaval traditionnel de <B><U>Saint Sever</U></B> (Sud Aveyron, France) : "<I>Il tait une fois, bti dans un trou perdu, un petit village peupl d'irrductibles buffatiers. Ils ont su repousser maintes et maintes attaques</I>..." <B>Diaporama et video en ligne</B> pour vous en faire une ide...<P>   (*) "...<I>La buffatire remonte  la nuit des temps : on ne sait pas quand elle e t cre pour la premire fois. On la trouve galement  Fayet,  Hospitalet-du-Larzac. On trouve aussi des farandoles  Camares,  Belmont ou  Lacaune, mais ce n'est pas tout  fait la mme chose</I>..."<BR> <B>La buffatire de Saint-sever du Moustier, traditions et pomes</B>, dit par le comit des ftes de saint-sever-du-moustier et <B>Boustrophedon</B>. Aot 1993. ISBN 2-909775-01-1. <p>&nbsp;</p>  <LI><A HREF="http://www.alef.org">Alef Multimedia</A>, "<I>sites web, bases de donnes, intranet, boutiques</I>..." (Aveyron, France)<BR>  Tradition vivante oblige, le petit village aveyronnais si convivial et dynamique  de <U>Saint Sever du Moustier</U> est aussi rsolument tourn vers le futur, version <U>technople</U> : il abrite en effet une ppinre d'entreprises runie en un bouquet <U>high-tech</U> runi autour d'<U><B>Alef Multimedia</B></U> [ http://www.alef.org ], laquelle abrite aussi sur son serveur les pages Web d'artisants locaux tels la <U>Poterie de Lucante</U>, ou les ditions <U>Boustrophedon</U>, ainsi que plusieurs sites associatifs.  <P>   <HR> <BR> </FONT> </div> </BODY> </HTML> 
