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Divined on Ding: Sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng bulls and add (or: have) two wild boars. 23 357 Bin in HYZ script is differentiated from the graphically similar (verb) bin “to host”. It is a noun and the object of zuo 作 “erect, build”. Ken-ichi Takashima (2010: II.122, note 9) comments, “The word also appears as a noun, apparently meaning some sort of shelter, referred to as a “bin-bethel” or “bin-shrine”. I use the term “bethel” which, though perhaps somewhat archaic, is to distinguish it from “guest house” because bin seems to have been created for paying homage to ancestral spirits when the Shang were engaged in battle…Quite possibly such shelter was a temporary rather than permanent construction like zong 宗 ‘tem- ple’.” 236 | HYZ 236