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On Jichou, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Ji one sow. 1 538 The topic of this divination is sending off Wei’s exorcism to Guizi. The divination proposes to perform it at the protagonist’s current location and not somewhere else (in Rong 于 These two locative phrases are used in opposition; zai 在is used when referring to the place closest to the protagonist, whereas yu 于is used when referring to a place further away from the his current location. 539 See the commentary to 214.3-4 for the context of this divination in a reconstructed timeline of events. 350 | HYZ 429