African Art
Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present and additionally, to predict events and reality of a future time. Divination has been practiced in African societies for millennia. Divination might be thought of as a social phenomenon, and is central to the lives of many in Africa.
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Dionysus.
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