Highland Seer · Gutenberg #18241
Separate procedure: plain white wide cup, leaves/small liquid remainder, left hand, three rapid turns, then inversion over a saucer. Handle/rim/side/bottom form a positional grammar.
physical cup · manual-bound
Tasseography · two non-blended lineages
Here the physical leaf pattern exists first, then the person confirms the perceived shape, and only then does the selected historical manual interpret it. OmenHall never creates one averaged dictionary.
Cicely Kent · Gutenberg #6964
A separate manual with its own procedure, shapes, and combination rules. Even DOG does not match Highland Seer, so the manual must be fixed before interpretation.
Recognition is not authority
AI may propose bird / branch / crescent, but the user confirms what is actually seen. An unconfirmed machine guess receives no historical meaning.
Freeze the cup first
The physical cup or a future deterministic digital cup is fixed before interpretation. The interpreter may not move a leaf or regenerate a pattern to fit an answer.
manual contradiction ledger
One shape — not one universal meaning
Both Gutenberg plaintexts are now exact-byte hash-locked (true). Full source lookup contains 171 Highland rows (local lines 552–936), 839 Kent rows and 71 combinations (lines 943–3577 / 3585–3781). The manuals share 136 labels; they are never automatically merged.
Highland Seer: The manual explicitly says symbol meanings are arbitrary in a scientific sense and then fixes one stable convention for its own system.
Cicely Kent: Claims about clairvoyance, subconscious causation, and future sight are presented as the historical author's claims, not as modern scientific facts.
historical exact-label lookup runtime: true · modern prediction authority: false
exact-label historical source lookup
Choose one manual and confirm the shape yourself first. Lookup is exact only: OmenHall neither guesses the symbol nor blends dictionaries.
| Symbol | Highland Seer | Cicely Kent | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| dog | position-sensitive from favorable to hostile | generally troublesome with size/form variants | STRONG_DIVERGENCE |
| ring | marriage with position/neighbour modifiers | contract/business or engagement/wedding depending on modifiers | PARTIAL_OVERLAP_DIFFERENT_GRAMMAR |
| bridge | favorable journey | advantageous opportunity or fortunate journey | PARTIAL_CONVERGENCE |
| anchor | luck, success and constancy with modifiers | loyalty, constancy, wishes or safety themes | PARTIAL_CONVERGENCE |
| cat | difficulty associated with treachery | trickery, quarrels or disturbance with form variants | PARTIAL_CONVERGENCE |
| snake | enemy or illness omen in that manual | treachery, disloyalty or hidden danger in that manual | PARTIAL_CONVERGENCE_DIFFERENT_SPECIFICS |