. Chess and playing cards. ed-tipped, arrow-pointedlots,tsHm, being clearly derived from arrows, tein, while the box, tung^represents the bamboo 1 Cat. No. 9048, Mus. Iniv. Penn. 8 Among the Chinese in the United States the God of War is invariably appealedto in using these lots. They ;ire placed apoD the little ledge, or altar before hisshrine (Plate40), which is maintained practically lor the purpose ofsnch the splints are invariably two elliptical pieces of wood. k<in piii (fig. 212 .rounded on one side and Hat on the other, usually made of the rool stocli
. Chess and playing cards. ed-tipped, arrow-pointedlots,tsHm, being clearly derived from arrows, tein, while the box, tung^represents the bamboo 1 Cat. No. 9048, Mus. Iniv. Penn. 8 Among the Chinese in the United States the God of War is invariably appealedto in using these lots. They ;ire placed apoD the little ledge, or altar before hisshrine (Plate40), which is maintained practically lor the purpose ofsnch the splints are invariably two elliptical pieces of wood. k<in piii (fig. 212 .rounded on one side and Hat on the other, usually made of the rool stocli of thebamboo. The inquirer, after making the usual sacrifices, throws the blocks to 900 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. These instruments, taken in connection with a set of arrows worn bya Chinese general, described on page 882, serve to make clear the refer-ence in Ezekiel xxi, 21, where Nebuchadnezzar, at the parting of twoways, uses divination with arrows to decide whether he shall proceedagainst Jerusalem or Fig. (tsim ii) in box (quiver).Length of sticks, 10 , China. Cat. No. 9048, Museum of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. Analogous to the tsHm ii was the Meisir game of the heathen Arabs, ascertain whether the time is propitious for divination with the Wim ii. In tossingthe blocks, if both fall with their curved sides uppermost the indication is a negativeone, neither good or evil; if both fall with the flat sides uppermost the indicationi- unfavorable; if one falls with the curved side uppermost and the other the reversethe Indication is good. It is customary to throw the blocks until they fall threenines alike in succession. • Pop the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the ways, at the head of twoways, to use divination. He shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim,he looked in the liver (K. V.), CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 901 in which marked arrows were shaken from a quiver. Ten or elevenarrows were used,
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