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Divined on Wuyin: Our lord will libate ale (to) the Lesser Altars (and) an- nounce by written record (sacrifice of) boars (as part of) making an exor- cism rite (for) going to hunt.565 1 563 In response to the previous divination which proposed a package of two head of pen- raised cattle, the present divination changes it to one pen-raised head cattle, and adds that it would be a cow. An alternative reading is to take 又 a conjunction, “and”; the sense would then be that, in contrast to the two head of pen-raised cattle proposed in the previous divina- tion, the offering was changed to one head of pen-raised cattle and a cow that was not pen- raised. 564 Sun Yabing (2011: 112, note 1) emends “犬” for “豕.” 565 This divination can be synchronized with 21.2 dated one day earlier: 丁丑卜：其禦子往田 于小示。用 “Divined on Dingchou: Should make an exorcism rite for our lord’s going to hunt 366 | HYZ 462