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Onomancy (or nomancy) is divination based on a subject's personal name. Onomancy gained popularity in Europe during the Late Middle Ages, but is said to have originated with the Pythagoreanism in antiquity. (1996). 081035487X, Gale. 081035487X Several methods of analyzing a name are possible, some of which are based on arithmancy or gematria.
An early example of onomancy is found in the Secretum Secretorum. The system given there involves adding up the numerical values of the letters in the names of two antagonists, dividing the total for each person by 9, and comparing the remainders with a table which predicts the victor. (1999). 9780271019673, Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271019673
In China and Taiwan, onomancy is known as 姓名學 (Chinese: xìngmíngxué), and in Japan, onomancy is known as 姓名判断 (Japanese: ). They are similar, and can take several forms, but the most popular is based on the character strokes in the subject's written name, and the result number will be modulo 81, the 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 45, 47, 48, 52, 57, 58, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68 are “lucky” numbers. (2025). 9780824838683, University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 9780824838683
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