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al Inira. a city of Acliaiali. ilicrc was a Cfk-l)raU'(l temple of I K-rciik-s. 

 where such as "consulteil tlie oracle, after praying- to the idol, threw four 

 dice, tlie points of which, i)eiiig well scanned In the priest, he was sup- 

 I^osed to draw an answer frdni tlu'in." 



I\ORv Tablets from a Libyan Tomb. 



Wide Petrie, " Naqada and Ballas " ; Churchward, "Signs and Symbols of 



Primordial Man.") 



A Still older relic may be found in the .-^o-called " votive tablet.s " 

 discovered by Professor Petrie in the Lybian tombs of Naqada/' 

 which in all probability were used for the same purpose ; and 

 if the bear's teeth found in the Cave of Duruthv, in the South- 



Beak s Teeth fi^om the Cave of Duruthy. 

 (From S. Reinach, " Repertoire de I'Art Quaternaire," p. 179 ) 



West of France, which are marked by differential symbols/** 

 may be taken as evidence, the history of cleromancy goes right 

 back into the quaternary period. 



"H. Ennemoser, "History of Magic" (Eng. transl. by W. Howitt, 

 in Bohn's Scientific Library, 2, 454. 



1' Petrie, " Xaqada and Balla.s"; De Morgan. " Recherches sur les 

 Origines de I'Egypte " ; G. Sergi. -The .Mediterranean Race," 97. Church- 

 ward. "Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man," 179. 



"C/. S. Reinach. "Repertoire de I'Art Quaternaire," 179. 



