Greek

Homeromanteion (荷馬骰子神諭)

The HOMEROMANTEION — the ancient HOMER DICE-ORACLE of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM VII / P.Lond. 121 lines 1–221, with parallel witnesses P.Oxy. 56.3831 and P.Bonn 3; ~3rd c. CE), the third Greek oracle in the catalogue. Homer as scripture: speak the invocation to Apollo, throw one six-sided die THREE times, and the ordered triple — 1-1-1 through 6-6-6, exactly 216 outcomes — keys ONE verse of the Iliad or Odyssey (cited book.line), read as the god's answer. Ask a question and cast — either an explicit physical throw you supply ("135", "1-3-5" or [1,3,5], for a live cast) or a deterministic seeded throw hashed from your question. Returns the throw, the primary citation plus any twin lines (formulaic verses standing at more than one Homeric locus), the GENUINE GREEK line (Perseus Digital Library, public domain), an original clean-room English rendering, an interpretive tone with 0–100 score, verdict, the Apollo invocation, and full honesty rails. The 216-entry table was verified citation-by-citation against the standard edition's identifications, catching three transcription errors circulating in popular copies; 25 throws whose verses are lost in the papyrus answer honestly as lacunae ('the oracle keeps silence — throw again another day') rather than inventing text. The tone/score are a modern overlay, not part of the ancient text; the papyrus's favorable-days custom is noted, not enforced. Symbolic Hellenic heritage divination for reflection, not prediction and not medical, legal, or financial advice.

Cost: 6 TIAN Points per call. tRPC procedure homer.cast.

get/api/trpc/homer.cast

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.asktian.com
  • URL: https://api.asktian.com/api/trpc/homer.cast
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Query parameters

inputstring

URL-encoded JSON of the procedure input (tRPC GET convention).

Response

tRPC result envelope

Changes

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