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Augury was a Greco-Roman religion practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur , read these signs, it was referred to as "taking the auspices".
The effectiveness of augury could only be judged retrospectively; the divinely ordained condition of peace (pax deorum) was an outcome of successful augury. Those whose actions had led to divine wrath ( ira deorum ) could not have possessed a true right of augury ( ius augurum ). [ 9 ]
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.
augury / ˈ ɔː ɡ jʊər i / → see theriomancy; auramancy / ˈ ɔː r əm æ n s i /: by auras (Greek aurā, ' breath ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') auspicy/auspication → see theriomancy (Latin avis, ' bird ' + specere, ' to look at ') austromancy → see theriomancy / ˈ ɔː s t r oʊ m æ n s i /: by wind (Latin auster, ' south wind ...
A collection of sacred texts called the Etrusca disciplina, written in Etruscan, were essentially guides on different forms of divination, including haruspicy and augury. [8] In addition, a number of archeological artifacts depict Etruscan haruspicy.
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The verb abominari ("to avert an omen", from ab-, "away, off," and ominari, "to pronounce on an omen") was a term of augury for an action that rejects or averts an unfavourable omen indicated by a signum, "sign". The noun is abominatio, from which English "abomination" derives.