connected with "Christian esoteric tradition of symbolism relating to the significance of alpha and omega". Both of these meanings Aries as well as omega have their historical basis in Dee's text "Arietis nota mystica ex duobus semicirculis in communi puncto connexis constituta" are Dee's words to describe the sigil (fol.13v, in C. H. Josten's edition and translation, Ambix, 1964, 12: 103, 161)...

The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from invisible world. They identify cause and appropriate remedy (blood sacrifice) through divination. diviner, called by invisible, is intimately linked a bush spirit an initiation. This becomes his divination assistant thus intermediary have developed particularly precise representations successive sequences t...

In this paper I will describe and interpret some data from Southern Quechua Aymara spoken texts recorded during traditional divinatory sessions. This analysis is aimed to show that divination can be considered as an example of how ritual speech, often described a phenomenon based on fixed sequences, characterized by variable elements too, being the relationship between particular “context situa...