Divination and Ontologies

The way types of divination move round the planet means it is not helpful to simply attribute one unitary ontology specific techniques or groups practitioners. Explaining in terms ‘ontology’ homogenizes cognitive and conceptual multiplicity, pre-empts possible outcomes divination. Moreover, this contradicts fundamentally open nature divination, fact that many forms reformulation questions helps keep futures open. With examples drawn from Mambila spider I suggest what an epidemiology beliefs ontologies gather around could look like. On account, acts as a ‘boundary object’, mediating both differences among clients between diviners.