Osteomancy is the use of animal bones to predict the future or to explain the unexplainable.
-Divination and Power: A Multiregional View of the Development of Oracle Bone Divination, Rowan K. Flad, Current Anthropology, June 2008
On the Darb, KhairAllah called a camel skeleton, Rimma, Cadaver, or, Rotting Bones, and Lane gives its doubled bi-literal cognate Taramrama as, He Moved his Lips without Speaking, as if communicating with a higher power, perhaps one who, after having thrown a rotten camel bone, seeks an answer to the question, Where am I?
Daoud, having thrown the bone