“Geomancy is a form of divination that allows us to domesticate the future”

Geomancy refers to divination techniques consisting in interpreting figures formed by elements such as pebbles or sand, as here in 1999 in the village Toalibou, 400 km east of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP The desire to guess the future seems to run through all human societies. Among the divinatory arts, one … Read more