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Theory and application:

Shub-ni-ga-rash
(to cast the personal fate)
The System of Initiations and Divination

The system of divination used by the Datu is also called Shubnigarash. The prime root of this Sumerian word is 'shub' - 'to toss'. The name (T)emple (O)f the (S)even (S)pheres (T.O.S.S) is a play on the word 'shub'

Shub-ni-garash means to cast ones own fate. To cast ones fate is seen as choseing one's own path in life. Each figure on the Tablet of fate is seen as representing a particular trial and accompanying lesson that act as an initiatory step on the path of being. This path of being or ladder of lights, teaches the Datu common sence lessons that aid us in our evolution, and help us overcome the distracting difficulties that hinder our oneness of motion.
The Datu were wandering sorcerous and priests and as such it was impractical to carry a large collection of ritual equipment. Not only would this be cumbersome, but it would mark them as different. It was also impractical for them to carry ritual items made of gold or in any other way desireablle to theives and robbers.
The datu carried a kit of ritual items that were common in apearance and miserly in terms of size and weight. There was the staff, there was a mat that had a pattern on it that acted as alter, a brass dish for summoning the fire spirit, a matching silver dish for water, a small knife, a lamp, sometimes a drum and or rattle, and a collection of amulets and talismans.
The Amulets were attributed to the elements and planets as well as the signs of the zodiac. They could number from four to thirty amulets in total, with the average being four, eight or sixteen.
If one were having difficulties on the path of being, it would be helpful if an insight could be gained as to what is hindering that persons motion.
The practice developed of casting these objects onto the mat and reading the amulets in relationship to the places they occupied on the patterns of the mat. Another consideration of how the amulets fell was wether they landed 'heads' side up or 'tails' side up.
The amulets had two distinct sides, the front being 'heads' was seen as positive, and the back or 'tails' side was seen as negative.
In this way any amulet could give two senses of meaning, an earth amulet could be positive earth (tranquility) or negative earth (stagnation). If the negative earth landed in the place of fire on the mat, it would imply a fiece stubborness that is bolstering the will.

Divination methods for the Tablet of Fate
There are several methods by which one may shub (throw) shubnigarash. the first three methods generate figures from the tablet of fate, and do not use the mat for reference. The fourth method uses the mat.



1. SINGLE AMULET METHOD:

one may take any object with two distinct side and shub the object for each level of a figure. Each shub gives a heads or tails and thus one dot or two dots. Most often this method is used to generate a single figure from the tablet of fate.

FIRST THROW (tails)
o o= (zero) negative is the root (negative is also a polarity)
This is the figure called Katu (that which falls)

SECOND THROW (heads)
.o o= negative is the root
. o = positive is the polarity
This is the sign for water, it is seen as positive under negative, and the binary number 01 (0+1)=1

THIRD THROW (heads)
.o o
. o = water is the root
. o = positive is the polarity
thus; positive water, this is the sign for the planet earth (the god Ea), and the binary number 011 (0+2+1)=3.

FOURTH THROW (heads)
.o o
. o
. o = Ea is the root
. o = Positive is the polarity
thus; positive Ea, this is the binary number 0111 (0+4+2+1)=7



Yes- the Answer is outside of you
follow your path well, kneel down and act with strength

Th [22] (400)
BASHMU SHA REESHUM - THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT
Tebuenki
(The rise of the Enki)
The writ of girtab The scorpion 0111
namtar
Libra
Wind of Water
Obsearvant

The heavenly waters, the heavenly wings, open the places of outer dreaming, and the heavenly appointed bond above the appointed fortress. You are the wind that unlocks the champion, the wind that removes the beast.


namtar

.O...O O Air of Water
.O.... O
for outer answers, searches, hunting, obsearvant, awareness of existence, exoteric knowledge


ADVANCED METHOD FOR COMPLETE ANSWER:
one may use four distinct objects that have two distinct sides each. In a four level figure each level has an elemental atribution, the top level is air, the second from the top is fire, the second from the bottom is water, and the bottom level is earth. The amulets will each be attributed to one of the elements and thus when the datu throws them they will produce the four levels of the figure.
.o o = wind amulet tails side up
. o = Fire amulet heads side up
. o = water amulet heads side up
. o = earth amulet heads side up

One may use three amulets to produce a three level (planetary) figure
.o o = wind amulet tails side up
. o = fire amulet heads side up
. o =water amulet heads side up

This method is usualy used to cast two figures of the same type. The eight, three level figures have sixty four potential combinations, and the sixteen, four level figures have two hundred and fifty six potential combinations.
The first figure cast is the figure heading, the second figure cast is found on the sub-list of figures. for example let us say that we cast the following figure first.

.o o = wind amulet tails side up
. o = Fire amulet heads side up
. o = water amulet heads side up
. o = earth amulet heads side up
This would take us to the section of the book about the sixteen (last series of the tablet)

BASHMU SHA REESHUM - THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT
Bashmu Sha Reeshum
Tebuenki
(The rise of the Enki)

Wind of Water
to go outward.
.O O
. O
. O
. O

we would then cast a second figure
.O O = Wind amulet tails side up.
.O O = Fire amulet tails side up
. O = water amulet heads side up
.O O = earth amulet tails side up

going down the sub-list we find:

Tebuenki-Katuenlil
.O O
.O O
. O
.O O

17 Chemosh gave him the arrow of Courage.
It would imply haveing faith in another's ability to accomplish a goal, and it would implie a time for courage


3. THE FIFTEEN OR SIXTEEN OBJECT METHOD:

The last section of the Tablet of fate has sixteen, four level figures, numbered 0 through 15. In the fifteen object method the datu will shub the fifteen objects and then count the number that land heads side up, and that number will be the serial number of the figure for example:

Seven of the objects land heads up thus we go to figure seven (in serial order).
.O O
. O
. O
. O

If all fifteen objects land tails side up it would mean the figure zero
.O O
.O O
.O O
.O O
(remember they are numbered in serial order as 0-15)

One may also use sixteen obejects. In this method, we cast just like in the fifteen object method, but we subtract one from the result. Thus eight heads up = 8-1 =7
.o o
. o
. o
. o

In both methods if all the objects land tails side up on both throws, it is taken to mean that the tablet will not answer now, and the datu puts away his shubnigarash.

Remember that one usualy casts two figures as in the four object method.


4. THE FULL THIRTY OBJECTS WITH MAT:

In this method there is an amulet for each of the thirty figures of the tablet of fate. The items are cast on the mat and then interpreted according to position on the mat and if the objects land as heads or tails. It is beyond the scope of this work to give a full explanation of this method of shub as it gives 1800+ basic combinations of amulets and their places on the mat. With the possibility of more than one object landing in a given place on the mat, there are literaly thousands of combination possible.
Only a tremendous amount of familiarity with the figures of the tablet will allow a true interpretation of this method of shub, and it is the intuitive understanding of the tablet that will cause this method of shub to release it's secets.
The datu begins by laying out the divineing mat oriented to the direction that exemplifies the energy in question. for example if the question is about stillness, the mat is oriented to the north. North is the direction attributed to the element of earth and earth has the conotation of stillness.
Once the mat is oriented and the objects are gathered in both hands, the reader reaches to the center of the mat. The reader rubs the objects back and forth in the hands in such a way that the objects drop from the hands in small numbers. The reader moves the hands along a clockwise, outward spiral path till all the objects have fallen or the hands have left the area of the mat. If objects are left in the hand, they will be set aside for a moment while the results of the shub are interprted.
The results for the mat being read in their entirity, the mat is cleared and the left over objects are cast in the same manner as before and the results are interpreted as the hidden information that the querent is blind to.