deglutition
deglutition (swallowing) A reflex action initiated by the presence of food in the pharynx. During deglutition, the soft
palate is raised, which prevents food from entering the nasal cavity; the
epiglottis closes, which blocks the entrance to the windpipe; and the oesophagus starts to contract (see
peristalsis), which ensures that food is conveyed to the stomach.
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Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern...second part constitutes a survey of divination in ancient Mesopotamia and "ancient...of a discussion of the phenomenon of divination in the ancient Near East. After all...
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Divination and experience: explorations of a Chagga epistemology./Divination et experience: explorations d'une epistemologie des Chagga.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...envisage various reasons why African divination has received so little systematic attention...shows how anthropological approaches to divination are founded on a common premise: regardless of whether divination is conceived of as a means for providing...
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Book reviews -- Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Frederick H. Cryer
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; FREDERICK H. CRYER, Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern...chronographic literature of the OT, divination played a prominent role in ancient...another form of non-prophetic divination"(p. 237). Nevertheless, with...
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Temporality of post-mortem divination and divination of post-mortem temporality
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits...events. The aim of post-mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange...dead and of the bush. The aim of divination is to place the events, deeds...
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Insight and Artistry in African Divination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...fifteen essays by scholars on African divination; it was occasioned by an exhibition...November 1996. Neither a catalogue of the divination objects in this collection nor a summary...continues the discourse begun by African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, edited by...
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Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Wing. It included 140 objects relating to African divination practices: single figures, sets of objects, costumes used in divination performances, and objects that result from divination or depict aspects of divination. In just eighty pages...
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Divining Troubles, or Divining troubles? Emergent and conflictual dimensions of Bangladeshi divination
Magazine article from: Anthropological Quarterly; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...explain how divinations could appear...products of divination-like Delwar...of earlier divinations' accuracy. [divination, dialogism...analyzing a dozen divination encounters...context for divinations as encounters...
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Divination as a Way of Knowing: Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation.
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Divination, which is a way of exploring the unknown...presentational symbolism. Wherever a theory of divination has been carefully elicited from practitioners...meditative empathy towards acts of divination as well as a sophisticated theory of...
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FINDING MEANING IN THE TEXT: THE PROCESS OF INTERPRETATION IN TEXT-BASED DIVINATION.(research)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Some systems of divination are used to select particular sections...Werbner's work on Kalanga and Tswapong divination provides a case-study of the detailed...Diviners have a multiple role when a divination technique selects a text. At each...
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Divination and Healing: Potent Vision/Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Divination and Healing: Potent Vision. Edited...25.00 paper) While healing, divination, and shamanistic modes of religiosity...folklorists and anthropologists working on divination and shamanism sidestep experiential...
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Divination
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
124. Divination See also 24. ASTROLOGY ; 174. FUTURE...aeromancy 1 . the art or science of divination by means of the air or winds. 2 . Humorous...alectoromancy, alectryomancy a form of divination by recording the letters revealed as...
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divination
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
divination A supposed method of obtaining information. Divination was widely practised in the...of the god Apollo. Other divinations were made by observing the...girl who had a spirit of divination (‘soothsayer...
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Speal Bone (Divination by)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Speal Bone (Divination by) An early form of divination used in Scotland. A speal bone, or blade bone of a shoulder of mutton, was used, but full details of the method are lacking. A soldier accompanying Lord Loudon on his retreat to Skye...
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Tea Leaves, Divination by
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Tea Leaves, Divination by One of the most popular forms of fortune-telling, depending...or house (changes, success). With the popularity of tea bags, divination by tea leaves has declined somewhat, but the bags can be opened...
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Chapter 7: Prophecy and Divination
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Chapter 7 Prophecy and Divination Since the beginning of human history, men and women have sought out glimpses into the future. Soothsayers and seers have attempted...
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