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| It was thus the tradition in India, before proceeding with the construction of houses, for a geomancer to locate the position of the underground naga, at the head of which a foundation was sunk for the center of the building. teachers of the spectral art that comprises monsters, omens, displays, prodigies, and such similar, prognosticators or natural presagers, teachers of oracles, sorcerers and especially those drawing lots, interpreters of dreams, physiognomists, metoposcopists, pyromaniacs, hydromancers, aeromancers, geomancers, chiromancers, and such similar. Geomancers using this approach employ an elaborate compass called the lo p'an, astrological charts and horoscopes, numerological data, and special rulers. |
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