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minent dangers of earlthly existence was oppressive. The conviction of the possibility of finding a safe way to do- things, and of being warned in time for danger, by means of divinatory calculations and interpretations, was a relief and a consolation. No wonder that so- many Javanese books o-f notes and compendiums of important texts contain notes on various kinds of divination. Javanese-Balinese (and Old Javanese) texts on divinatory calculations in general are called Wariga. Wariga was an ancient office title in rural districts, Perhaps the rural wariga’s office was connected with divination and agriculture. Sundari is an other name of Javanese-Balinese divination texts. Texts indicated by that name seem to contain speculations on the connection of macrocosmos and microcosmos, which is the foundation of divination. The reason why the name Sundari is given to this text (or group of texts) is not clear. The generic name of modem Javanese texts on divination is Pawukon (from wuku, a seven-days period, originally: partition in a bamboo stalk, Malay: buku). In the present Synopsis the following kinds of divination are distinguished: 1. interpretation of dreams, and magic prac tised in order to neutralize evil influences of bad dreams (41.760). 2. interpretations of portents, especially earthquakes, and magic practised in order to neutralize evil consequences (41.770—41.800). 3. interpretation of prognostics, especially vibrations felt in various limbs of the human body (41.810). Prognostics of the coming hour of death, in Javanese-Bali nese texts, have been registered in Part

One of the present Synopsis, because they are connected with religious spe culation and ritual (see General Index sub voce death). 4. calculations in order to find auspicious times, circumstances and places, by means of counting (tenrn3), especially using the numerical values of letters (of names) and chronological units (days of the various kinds of weeks, known to the Javanese, from the two-days week up to the ten-days week) ; geomancy, in order to find good places for dwellings and other buildings (41.820—41.850). 5. Wariga texts, compendiums of Javanese- Balinese divination (41.860—41.900). 6. Sundari texts, Javanese-Balinese divina tory speculations (41.910—41.930). 7. Pawukon texts, modern Javanese com pendiums of divination, predictions of characters, and future experiences in life, mainly based on the place of one’s birth day in the intricate intersecting system of Javanese weeks and wukus (41.940— 41.960). The series of thirty wukus (seven-days weeks, having individual names) may be a survival of an ancient “agricultural year”, especially connected with the cultivation of rice. The myth of Sinta and Watu Gunuq, mother (and wife) and son (and husband), the first and the thirtieth wuku, is the tale of the origin of the wuku series. It seems to contain some references to rice. Pawukon texts, which deal with the lore of the wukus and their characters, influencing human destiny, are connected both with divination and chronology. More purely chronological texts have been listed under the next head (42.000).