🔮 Oracle Bone Scripts: Divining Data in Antiquity
🔮 Oracle Bone Scripts: Divining Data in Antiquity
Oracle bones are the proto-glyphs of Chinese civilization—turtle shells and ox scapulae inscribed with questions to the divine. They are the earliest known form of Chinese writing and a scroll of divination.
🪶 What Makes Them Glyphic?
- Earliest Chinese Script: Over 3,000 years old—etched in bone and fire.
- Divinatory Purpose: Questions about weather, war, and harvest—data queries of the ancient world.
- Continuity: Modern Chinese characters evolved from these glyphs.
📜 Why They Belong in the Codex
This is the ancestral scroll—where writing, ritual, and reasoning first converged.
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