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60.020 Figures pertaining to divination in Javanese-Balinese and Javanese manuscripts.

Divinatory calculations, believed to furnish ^formation on auspicious and inauspicious times to do things, are related to' the clas sification of elements of microcosmos and ms-crocosmos. A considerable part of Java- nese divination is founded on supposed good 0r bad influences on human destiny exercised y the concurrence of various chronological Astems, especially weeks of two to ten days, atl d a cycle of thirty seven-days weeks called The coincidence of the days belonging t° those different systems is supposed to be Uther auspicious or inauspicious. Divination tables showing possible coin cidences and indicating their supposed in- Uetlce for good or bad luck were much in Us< ' m Balinese and Javanese households. an y Javanese-Balinese and Javanese manu- ^Pts dealing with divination practices con- a i n su ch tables in concise or elaborate Ver sions. In the countryside they were often patched on boards of wood, in Bali called hka.

In Bali, pictures on cotton sheets, used as hangings, and containing elaborate divi nation tables referring to the thirty wukus (,pawukon), were often the work of good artists. Earthquakes and constellations were the principal subjects of other kinds of divi nation tables called palilindon and palalin- tatym. The best ones contain exquisite small pictures in the dozens of squares into which the sheet is divided. Elaborate pawukon, palilindon and palalintavym pictures are sel dom found in manuscripts, though. The available space was too small. On the whole the pawukon divination is the most popular one in Bali and Java. The thirty wukus are personified as gods and goddesses, each having his or her own at tributes. In manuscripts drawings of single wukus are often placed before the paragraphs dealing with their character and influence on human destiny. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, large albums containing polychrome pictures of the thirty wukus with