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Divined on Yichou, at You: [Our lord], having a demon heart (> a bad feel- ing in his heart), should rush195 at once196 to the border.197 : Qiu Xigui ([1980] 2012: 1.38-39) identifies this graph as writing the word zhi 置 “to set, place, arrange”. He explains that the bottom part of the graph is a “stand” and the top part is the phonetic zhi 之 or 止. Variant forms include (HJ 30693, etc.), which adds left and right hands above the phonetic (止), and a simplified form (HJ 23603), which omits the “stand”. In Shang oracle bone and bronze inscriptions (see JC 9894) this word regularly occurs as a verb that takes drum or bell as its object, for instance HJ 30693: 其置庸(鏞)壴(鼓)于既卯 “Should set bell(s) and drum(s) after cutting apart (the sacrifices).” Here it is a noun followed by a quantifi- er. 置 likely refers to a music performance and means to set a drum or bell to be played at or after the sacrifice. This divination can be synchronized with 455.1; see also 409. 191 Dao 盜: See Yu Xingwu (2009: 382-387) for the identification of this word. Dao is the name of a person, and the person who will be exorcised. The same person occurs again on 92.1, which is a divination also dated to a Jia day. Dao is likely one of the prince’s servitors, and on this particular occasion will to take an active role in preparing for and providing service during the king’s visit and banquet. Perhaps the context of this divination was to first exorcise him in advance of his coming into contact with the king, and to make sure his service was without any errors; for a possible comparison, and one recorded post-factum, see HYZ 28.6 and 290.7 com- mentaries citing the Western Zhou bronze inscription Yu gui 遹簋. 192 I follow Zhu Qixiang (2006: 976) who reads this graph as a variant of yu 禦. 193 The graph 甲 is still visible in the rubbing and photograph and refers to Ancestress Jia mentioned in the preceding divination. 194 Zhi appears only in this fragmented divination account. Based on the divination about Dao just before it in the sequence, the context seems to be that an exorcism is also planned for Zhi; it further suggests that, like Dao, he is another member of the protagonist’s servitors. HYZ 89 | 149