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Oracle Bones

Oracle Bones. 甲骨. Shang Dynasty- bone piece. Bones unearthed by farmers and sold as medicinal cures. Tortoise plastrons- belly shells. Ox Scapulae- shoulder blades. Chinese oxtail soup. Tortoise eggs for consumption. Turtle soup and red “tortoise” cake.

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Oracle Bones

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  1. Oracle Bones 甲骨

  2. Shang Dynasty- bone piece

  3. Bones unearthed by farmers and sold as medicinal cures

  4. Tortoise plastrons- belly shells

  5. Ox Scapulae- shoulder blades

  6. Chinese oxtail soup

  7. Tortoise eggs for consumption

  8. Turtle soup and red “tortoise” cake If you ate turtle/tortoise or something that resembled it, you would have a long life like the animal

  9. Cleaned of meat, sawed, scraped, making a flat surface

  10. Pyromancy The art of divination by means of fire; bones put into pit and lit on fire

  11. Questions to the gods: Warfare, birth, illness, death, agriculture, weather

  12. Oracle at Delphi – Temple of ApolloPythia peering in bowl to prognosticate

  13. Wailing Wall- Jerusalem- Commissioned by King Herod in 20 BC Males and females pray in separate sections Write notes of prayer and place them in cracks of wall

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