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  2. Oracle - Wikipedia

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    The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek.

  3. Divination - Wikipedia

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    Because of the high demand for oracle consultations and the oracles’ limited work schedule, they were not the main source of divination for the ancient Greeks. That role fell to the seers ( Greek : μάντεις ).

  4. Oracular literature - Wikipedia

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    The idea is found in many ancient cultures. Among the Celts, for instance, the bard held the king accountable to his sacred vows to land and people.In Greece, the oracles at Delphi and other sacred sites gave pronouncements in a highly stylized form of prophetic speech.

  5. Astragalomancy - Wikipedia

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    The business the reader has is either silently or openly expressed to the oracle, and the oracle responds in kind. The text's standard construction of the inquirer then is one who has come from a foreign place to the oracle, puts the business or activities he wants to conduct to the god, and then receives an answer.

  6. Haruspex - Wikipedia

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    In southwest Ethiopia and adjacent area of South Sudan, a number of ethnic communities have had the practice of reading animal entrails to divine the future. [9] Some of the groups that have been documented as having this practice include Suri , Mursi , Topsa , Nyangatom , Didinga , Murle , Me'en , Turkana , Konso , [ 10 ] Dime , [ 11 ...

  7. Ornithomancy - Wikipedia

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    Ornithomancy (modern term from Greek ornis "bird" and manteia "divination"; in Ancient Greek: οἰωνίζομαι "take omens from the flight and cries of birds") is the practice of reading omens from the actions of birds followed in many ancient cultures including the Greeks, and is equivalent to the augury employed by the ancient Romans.

  8. Sibylline Oracles - Wikipedia

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    The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley. They consist of 12 books (or 14) of various authorship, date, and religious conception. The final arrangement, thought to be due to an unknown editor of the 6th century AD (Alexandre), does not determine identity of authorship, time, or religious belief; many of the books are merely arbitrary groupings of unrelated fragments.

  9. Scapulimancy - Wikipedia

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    Scapulimancy (also spelled scapulomancy and scapulamancy, also termed omoplatoscopy or speal bone reading) is the practice of divination by use of scapulae or speal bones (shoulder blades). It is most widely practiced in China and the Sinosphere as oracle bones , but has also been independently developed in other traditions including the West .