Intention · Certain
Divination
A controlled ritual-intention term for divinatory associations.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Explicit Source
wood for divining rods
The record describes a collected historical custom rather than a universal property of rowan.
1 attestation · high confidence
- Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · European practices summarized in an 1884 comparative survey · European comparative plant folklore · Book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics · Section Introduction · Page xviii-xix
Modern Convention
full-Moon divination convention
One independent modern practice source explicitly supports this edge, so it is contextual and non-default.
1 attestation · contextual confidence
- Patti Wigington, Blessing MoonLearn Religions reference page, updated May 21, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section Full Moon
Explicit Source
Homeric Hymn 3 makes Apollo declare Zeus' will at his Pythian sanctuary
A cultic and hymnic function, not a promise of personal divinatory accuracy.
1 attestation · high confidence
- Anonymous Homeric Hymns; edited and translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Homeric HymnsHugh G. Evelyn-White edition and English translation in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, 1914 · translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White · edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White · Perseus Digital Library / Scaife ATLAS · Archaic Greece · Delphi · Hymn Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo · Line 131-139; 214-546
Reviewed sources
- Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics (1884)First edition · Wellcome Collection
- Patti Wigington, Blessing Moon (2019)Learn Religions reference page, updated May 21, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith
- Anonymous Homeric Hymns; edited and translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Homeric Hymns (1914)Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, London and New York, 1914 · Perseus Digital Library / Scaife ATLAS