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Divined on Renchen: Towards596 Guisi, <our lord>597 dreamt that His High- ness made an ale libation and our lord used the ladle. It will not have (risk) reaching (the point of) affliction. 1 594 This divination can be synchronized with 288.5. 595 The two divinations (3)-(5) have the crack numbers 1 and 3, and the sequence is missing a divination account with a crack number 2. Perhaps this can be synchronized with the small frag- ment HYZ 526. 493, however, is intact, and this implies that 526 originally belonged to a different shell. 596 In Shang OBI this graph commonly occurs in between two consecutive days. While the sense is clear, it is still uncertain what word the graph wrote. Qiu Xigui (2012: 1.391-403) reads it xiang 向 “towards”, but doing so does not make sense when it is used as a verb of sacrifice, unless it is read as xiang 饗, but there is a perfectly good character for that word (Edward Shaughnessy, personal communication). Ken-ichi Takashima (2010: 2.31-32 [Bingbian 1]) has a lengthy comment suggesting to read it zhuo (斲) “chop”: “(when) Day X ‘cleaved/cut’ Day Y”. : I read the graph in between gui 癸and meng 夢as though it wrote two words; the first writes si 巳, i.e., day Guisi (30/30), and the second writes zi 子, the subject of the verb “dream”. Day Renchen is 29/30. HYZ 495 | 385