---
title: "Astragalomancy (希臘骰骨神諭)"
method: GET
path: "/api/trpc/astragaloi.cast"
tags: ["Greek"]
---

# Astragalomancy (希臘骰骨神諭)

`GET /api/trpc/astragaloi.cast`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.asktian.com`
- URL: `https://api.asktian.com/api/trpc/astragaloi.cast`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

ASTRAGALOMANCY — the Greco-Roman FIVE-KNUCKLEBONE dice oracle, the sibling of the Greek Alphabet Oracle, inscribed on temple pillars in the agoras of Pisidia and Pamphylia (Termessos, Sagalassos, Attaleia, Perge). The enquirer throws five astragaloi (knucklebones); each bone lands on one of four faces valued 1, 3, 4 or 6 (2 and 5 are impossible). The five values are summed and the sorted throw keys one of exactly 56 oracle responses — the C(8,3) = 56 distinct multisets of five faces — each presided over by a named divinity (Zeus Olympios, Tyche Soteira, Hermes Tetragonos, the Moirai…) with a short verse. Ask a yes/no question and the oracle casts the bones — either an explicit throw you supply ([1,3,4,6,6] or "13466", for a live cast) or a deterministic seeded throw. Returns the throw, the named faces, the sum (5–30, with 6 and 29 impossible), the presiding deity, an original clean-room English paraphrase of the verse, the tone, a plain verdict and a symbolic 0–100 score. Table after Graf (2005) and Nollé (2007), Termessos version; two handout transcription errors corrected against the unique canonical multisets. The verse texts are ancient/public-domain but the English is our own paraphrase (modern translations copyrighted, not reproduced); real astragaloi are physically biased, so the seeded throw uses uniform faces for reproducibility. Symbolic Hellenic heritage divination for reflection, not prediction and not medical, legal, or financial advice.

Cost: 6 TIAN Points per call. tRPC procedure `astragaloi.cast`.

## Query parameters

- `input` string

## Response `200`

tRPC result envelope

- TrpcResult: tRPC HTTP response envelope.
  - `result` object
    - `data` object: The procedure's return value (system-specific).

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