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...[our lord] will pray. 262 On 178 the graph used to write “ascend” is zhi 陟. The Erya lists the following words as synonyms: zhi 騭. jia 假, ge 格, zhi 陟, ji 躋, deng 登, and sheng 陞也. I read sheng 升 here as 陞. The phrase sheng sui 升歲 occurs frequently in the divination accounts of Wu Ding, Zu Geng, and Zu Jia (period I-IIab), but only occurs in the HYZ OBI on this one shell. This suggests that the HYZ prince was not regularly tasked with performing this ritual action. The identification of 升 follows Jao Tsung-I (1959: 377), who calls attention to a parallel with the OBI phrase 陟歲. I read both 升歲and 陟歲 literally as [subject] ascends [to higher place] to make sacrifice; the alternative is that “sacrifice” is the object of these verbs read in the causative mode, “cause sacrifice to go up [to spirit recipient]”. 263 Ancestress Geng (451), Ancestor Wu (316↔355.5) and Child Gui (459.8) are the only ances- tors who received dog sacrifices in the Huayuanzhuang East divinations. HYZ 145 | 179