GERONTOLOGY

GROUP ONE DIVINERS

BY THE END OF THE LECTURES, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO;
1. DEFINE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
2. IDENTIFY THE VARIOUS TYPES OF TRADITIONAL HEALERS
3. EXPLAIN WHO A DIVINER IS
4. UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF DIVINERS
5. TYPES OF DIVINATIONS
6. THE METHODS OF DIVINATIONS
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Traditional medicine refers to health practices,
approaches, knowledge and believes incorporating
plants, animals and mineral based medicines,
spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercise
applied singularly or in combination to treat,
diagnose and prevent illness or maintain wellbeing
(WHO)
TYPES OF TRADITIONAL
HEALERS
1. Diviners
2. Herbalist
3. Bone setters
4. Spiritualists
DIVINERS
Who is a Diviner?
•Diviners use methods of possession, divination and other
ritual means to diagnose illness and to heal.
•They are intermediaries between their spiritual agencies
and patients who seek their help.
•When a diviner is satisfied that he had discovered what is
wrong with the patient, he resorts to an interviewing
technique to get more information in order to confirm the
diagnosis.
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•They often seek for social and

psychological reasons for illness.
•They divine why some clients are not
successful in life and prescribe solutions.
ROLES OF DIVINERS
1. They act as judges who settle disputes among people
2. They act as mediators between the spiritual agencies and the
patients who seek they help.
3. They reveal secrets and expose wrong doers and foretell the
future of their seekers.
4. They educate the people about their culture.
5. They also serve as counsellors to the people or to the society.
TYPES OF DIVINATIONS
There are three main types of divinations, inductive
divination, interpretive divinations, intuitive divination.
1. INDUCTIVE DIVINATION
•This type of divination is associated with the reading of
artificially contrived events, such as the moment of
sacrificial smoke, the fall of an arrow or the cast of a dice
or lots.
TYPES OF DIVINATIONS
CONT’D
2. INTERPRETIVE DIVINATION
•It require the combination of correct procedure with the special
gift of cunning site that sets a dinner apart from his fellows. Eg.
Many cultures today the contemporary dinner when they are
seeking to diagnose an illness, will carefully pass a number of
eggs over the patient’s body in order to draw into them an essence
of the affliction. The intact content are then collected into water
and the diviner withdraws into a darkened corner to read ‘ the
signs of the eggs’.
TYPES OF DIVINATIONS
CONT’D
3. INTUITIVE DIVINATION
•It involves the direct reception of information from
spirits, visions or dreams. This relies on the power
of the individual to receive knowledge.
METHODS OF DIVINATION/
MODES OF OPERATION
The following are the modes of operation in divination;
1. TEA READING
It is pretty common to hear of the divination of the future through the coffee dregs left in
the cup. Reading leftover tea leaves (tasseography) is a similar practice nearly equally
complex but readers often find forms even different and numerous. The figure of a fish
may be a sign of good luck, while a mountain may augur a series of future obstacles.
2. SAND DIVINATION
•Reading the shapes in sand or stones is one of the most beautiful acts used in the ancient
Muslim east, it was said to read vestiges find within layers of the sand. Those who
believe in the geomancy are convinced of a vital energy. An aura of the sand when sand is
thrown at random, either in the dessert or unto a board specially designed for divination.
METHODS OF DIVINATION/
MODES OF OPERATION
CONT’D
3. PALMISTRY
•The process of act of interpretating
character, telling fortunes etc. by
the configuration of lines, marks or
bumps on a person’s hands.
4. TAROT CARD
•It similes offers a guideline and help
the reader to simply interpretating
the probable outcome based upon the
forces presently at work. It also
consists of a special card used mainly
for fortune telling.
METHODS OF DIVINATION/
MODES OF OPERATION
CONT’D
5. ASTROLOGY
•The study of the motion
and relative positions of
the planets, sun and moon
interpretated in terms
of human characteristics
and activities.
6. CRYSTAL GAZING
•Acts of staring into a crystal globe
(crystal ball) supposedly in order to
arouse the visual perception of the
future.
METHODS OF DIVINATION/
MODES OF OPERATION
CONT’D
7. NUMEROLOGY
•The study of numbers such
as the figures in birth
dates, and of their supposed
influence on human affairs.
8. DICE
•Cubes of wood, plastic, etc, each
of those sides has a different
number of spots (1-6), used in the
games of chance and in gambling
to give random numbers.
CONCLUSION
•Diviners use methods of possession, divination and
other ritual means to diagnose illness and to heal.
•They often seek for social and psychological
reasons for illness.
•They divine why some clients are not successful in
life and prescribe solutions.
GROUP MEMBERS
1. Azangbeo Stephen Ayine PUCN/190011
2. Akanzire Clement PUCN/190012
3. Agameti Richard PUCN/190004
4. Forson Martha PUCN/190001
5. Agbodo Janet PUCN/190002
6. Otupri Priscilla PUCN/190006
7. Benedicta Smith PUCN/190007
REFERENCES
•https://www.britannica.com/topic/divination/Varieties-of-divination
•https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/the-silent-voices-of-african-divination/
•https://www.britannica.com/topic/divination/Types-of-divination
•https://www.faena.com/aleph/5-ancient-methods-of-divination