Editing Geomancy (section)

===African geomancy===
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Like Arabic geomancy, ''[[Sikidy]]'' and other forms of African divination follow techniques that have remained virtually unchanged.
As an example, Sikidy is the most important method of divination for the [[Malagasy peoples]] of [[Madagascar]]. The process involves a mathematical grid of disk-shaped seeds in sixteen figures arranged in rows which the sorcerer uses to divine the future.<ref> Sikidy article and instructions in ''Occult World'' [https://occult-world.com/sikidy/]</ref>

One traditional form of geomancy in [[Africa]] consists of throwing handfuls of dirt in the air and observing how the dirt falls. It can also involve a mouse as the agent of the earth spirit. [[Ifá]], one of the oldest forms of geomancy, originated in West Africa, and uses the same sixteen [[geomantic figures]] as in Arabic and Western geomancy with different meanings and names; the process is shortened to using only two figures.