历史上鸟骨也常用于占卜，一个假定的占卜者扔下骨头，然后以骨头落地的形状来预测未来。

Bird bones have also been used in divination throughout history, with a supposed soothsayer throwing the bones and reading their patterns to predict the future.

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地相术是那时非常流行的能够预知未来的占卜术，就像识别鸡的内脏，毫无混乱。

Geomancie was a very popular technique at the time for predicting the future. It was like reading the signs in chicken entrails, but without the mess.

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在很多的文化中，水晶球占卜都被视为解析过去和现在，预测未来的一种方式。

Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future.

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Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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