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Divined on Ren: If making an exorcism rite (for) our lord’s sick shoulder (to) Ancestress Geng, announce by written record (sacrifice of) three pigs.128 1 126 I have reordered the sequence based on other divinations in this set (including HYZ 63) that are clearly deciding who to call on to see Lady Hao. Both Fa and Wei are mentioned (63) but diviners want to know if another person should be added. 127 For shi 食as “feed”, see Qiu Xigui 2012: 4.390 and HYZ 4.1 commentary: “feed horses” shi ma 食馬. “Feed cow” ought to refer to the cow’s nutrition, but the alternative is to take 食 as a verb and in coordination with sui “sacrifice”, “Sacrifice and feed cow(s) to…”. The “Pin Li” 聘禮 chapter of the Yi Li 儀禮 distinguishes between 食and xiang 饗 “feast”. The former was a strict beef cattle offering with no ale, whereas the latter included offerings of both meat and ale; see Yang Tianyu 2007: 248, and compare what is included in a feast 饗 for a different ancestor on