Chronomancy

{{Short description|Divination of the best time to do something}} {{Redirect|Chronomancer|supplement to role-playing game ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''|Chronomancer (supplement){{!}}''Chronomancer'' (supplement)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Refimprove|date=April 2008}} {{Notability|date=January 2013}} }} Chronomancy, also known as ''hemerology'' or ''calendar astrology'', is a generalized term for divination the determination of lucky and unlucky days and of the best time to do something, popular in ancient East Asia, particularly China.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chronomancy definition|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chronomancy|website=merriam-webster|publisher=Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary}}</ref> Practitioners would utilize calendars and other temporal data to determine the auspiciousness of future days.<ref>Hayek, M. (2017). "19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques". In Coping with the Future. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004356788_021</ref>

The term "chronomancy", stemming from the Greek word ''chronos'' (meaning ''time''), and the word ''manteia'' (meaning ''divination'') is also used in fiction to refer to a school of magic involving supernatural manipulation of time.

==Role in modern fantasy== In modern fantasy role-playing games, such as ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and other games set in the Forgotten Realms universe, chronomancy refers to a school of magic related to moving through and manipulating time.

==See also== *Biorhythm (pseudoscience)

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Category:Divination Category:Chinese mythology