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  trigram wheels

 

China

Shi pan-like cosmographic divination board used for fortune telling, here in the form of a wooden table, with adjustable wheels that have trigram symbols and Chinese characters on them.

 

Those characters represent the 36 animals thought to have jurisdiction over the hours of the day and the Twenty-eight Lunar Mansions of the 28 Celestial Deities in the Star Mandala.