#future telling

An interesting Etruscan bronze mirror from the collection of the Vatican Museums. The scene on the rear side depicts Kalkhas (or in Greek Calchas), the legendary seer and fortune teller.

Calchas was best known as a skilled augur (Greek oinópolos, or 'bird-savant'), able to tell the past, the present and the future by interpreting the birds' fly. However, he was also strong in haruspicy, examining a liver or entrails of the sacrificed animals for the same purposes; we see his knife on an altar.

Calchas (and other seers/priests) were seen as mediators between gods (and specifically Apollo, in case of Calchas) and people, messengers of some sort - that explains his wings.

The mirror was found near Vulci, one of main Etruscan towns; it's very unusually decorated using an applied-metal technique: thin strips of lighter alloy were laid onto the cast bronze surface to form the image in shallow relief - see the close-up:

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Back in June 2020, there was a future telling about YZ's current and future relationship. However, at that time the op didn't allow reposting or screenshooting and the post was then deleted, so many Chinese cpfs who have read it couldn't find the original post anymore. That's why the translation below is just what Chinese cpfs can remember about that future telling.

1) A post from cpf (HERE):

"Ah, I suddenly think of a future telling by Golden Wheel to the Sea or someone else some years ago that they would break up and then make up.

(This is an old future telling about YZ by Golden Wheel to the Sea - a famous Chinese future teller - in 2016. You may read more >>HERE)

Then back in June last year (2020), I also saw a divination post (from another future teller, not Golden Wheel) saying that their relationship would be broken and fixed again, then things would be ok around spring 2021 of lunar calendar. "

(So YZ just made a short trip to Sanya in spring festival 2021 after the lunar new year celebration >>HERE. If the future telling above was accurate, this Sanya trip confirmed that they had made up, right?)

2) Some replies from other Chinese cpfs:

- "I know that divination post, at that time I even made a comment under it, but dw (toxicfans) scolded the future teller so it was then deleted. She said that 2020 was very stressful for two of them (YZ), that's why they broke up for a while, then in the comment section more than one person also predicted that things would be ok when spring festival (Chinese New Year) came, meaning a new beginning of the year would be better."

- "I also saw that post. Buz I deal with metaphysics, I remember it exactly. She (the future teller) posted it on 25 June and said they were breaking up at that time and needed to wait until spring festival the next year to make up."

- Reply: "Is that why there were not many hints in 2020? Also our cpf supertopic rank decreased."

- "I'm really curious. If they two broke up, would there be no obvious evidence or sadness? I'm so old now, my eyes can't be as bright as before, or probably the two boys have grown up to be stronger."

- Reply: "Actually I think boss (Jingyu) came to Hengdian to pursue wifey (ZZ) again (after breaking up), and then ZZ showed his love, maybe one pursued the other, which is different from how ordinary people like us break up. They (YZ) are like: one running and one pursuing, while we are like: break up and never see each other again. Just my delulu."

- "Golden Wheel did say there would be no making without breaking, and also said after July, August or September 2018, I don't remember exactly, they would be together forever, I remember this."

And she didn't have a clue of what she even started until someone told her.