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Divined on Bing: In five days our lord’s eye(s) will finish being sick. 1 tive meaning. Reading 心as something ominous makes sense here but elsewhere in the HYZ OBI 心is used in its original sense. Divination (8) below in the sequence says in the preface that the bull’s stomach will be contributed to the king. This suggests that participants took parts of the sacrifice and contributed other parts to the king. For this reason, I read this divina- tion as proposing that the protagonist gets the heart when sacrificing a bull to Ancestress Geng on the following day. 547 For the reading of this word, see Sun Yabing 2014: 109-112. HYZ 113, 237, 401 and 490 record divinations about whether or not to contribute meat to the king. 548 入胵丁is the result of a previous divination. The “test” divination that follows it is trying to determine whether adding meat along with the sacrificed bull’s stomach is the right course of action. HYZ 446 | 357