pyromantic การใช้

These inscriptions record the pyromantic divinations performed at the court of the Shang kings.
However, the second form, " pyromantic " scapulimancy, involving the heating or burning of the bone and interpretation of the results, was practiced in East Asia and North America.
As for pyromantic shells or bones " with inscriptions ", the earliest date back to the site of Erligang in Zhengzhou, Henan, where burned scapulae of oxen, sheep and pigs were found and one bone fragment from a pre-Shang layer was inscribed with a graph ( 1 ) corresponding to Shang oracle bone script.