CLASSICS 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Magic 8-Ball, Iliad
27 Mar 2018
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There could have been interpreted in many different ways. You have to stare into the bowl for a while this is pretty much all that is known about how bowl divination works. Answers from the iliad and the odyssey (homer) in antiquity. American invention that wants to attribute to another culture (china). Humans like to create an intricate past, even if one did not truly exist. Classmates or other kids (older or younger) Realm of tradition that you pick up as kids but you don"t know where it began. Is not a part of adult life, but still gets passed on for years. They feel ominous because it is out of one"s conscious control. Maybe because people want to know about their lives nobody wants to leave things up to chance. Many methods work in a way that if someone does not like the initial answer they got, they can try again to get a more desirable answer.
