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Raise (cereal) (to) Ancestress Ji,131 and pair wild boar with it.132 1 sacrifices associated with these types of Shang charges a “bargaining, wait-and-see posture”. It is equally possible to read the Ren day divinations before the Yi day divination, that is, first day 9 and then day 2 of the following week. This would then mean that the daily condition of the protagonist’s ailing shoulder has worsened since the number of sacrifices increases; compare, for example, the divinatory sequence of HYZ 1 which appears to start on a Ren day (9/10) and continues through Jia (Day 1/10) of the following week. 129 Oracle bone inscriptions have the phrases wang rong 望戎 “watch warriors from afar”, and hu wang 呼望某方/ hu mu 呼目某方 “call to watch from afar/keep an eye on X-territory”; Western Zhou bronze inscriptions frequently use the word rong 戎in reference to an enemy. See Yao Xuan 130 I read Nan 南here as a person’s name (Lin Yun 2007); see 270. 南more commonly occurs in these divinations as a direction word, and not a person’s name; examples are 144.2: 南三日 又(有)至 “South, in three days there will be arrival”, 290.4: 自今三旬又(有)至南 “From today, in three weeks (thirty days) there will be arrival south” and others (47.1, 159.1-2, 264, 290.5, 455). The divination here was presumably related to divination before it. 131 This is the only occurrence of the syntax “verb-deng 登 + ancestor name”. In the HYZ OBI the verb deng is usually takes a cereal type as its direct object. HYZ 39 | 119