Tag: Geomancer

You must often have seen brass geomantic lots with geomancer (رمال). They consist of pieces attached to an iron wire. The geomancers (رمال) rotates it in the hand and then drops it onto a book, a plate, or a board. Since all four pieces are square, whichever side they fall on, they produce the first four geomantic figures. In other words, whichever side the lot lands on creates a particular figure, and that figure becomes the answer to your question. If you look closely at these square metal pieces, you will see round dots on them—there is nothing on them except dots. However, these dots are of two kinds: in one place there is a single dot, and in another place there are two dots placed Read more [...]