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RESPECT FOR THE SCAPULA "DAL"
There are still a large number of old nomadic prohibitions even in today's Mongolian society. One of them involves the eating of the shoulder blade (dal).
Mongolians serve only their most respected guests boiled scapula, which can be divided into 70 pieces. If the head of the household eats scapula, he gives his children the flesh from the inner face; but young people are supposed never to eat scapula in the presence of elders.
Mongolians call the scapula "wise meat," as diviners tell fortunes by scapulomacy, which is a centuries-old skill, dating back at least to the Xiongnu. It involves reading the cracks in the burnt shoulder blade of a sheep.
As with the shaman, fire is an intermediary that allows communication with heaven, so it reveals omens through the cracks in bones, or even in logs and in the color and regularity of the flames.
In some parts, a scapula hung on a horse's saddle is supposed to ward off attacks by wolves.