Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial...
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schedule, they were not the main source of divination for the ancient Greeks. That role fell to the seers (Greek: μάντεις). Seers were not in direct contact...
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lead + Greek manteía, prophecy) pneumancy: by blowing (Greek pneuma, breath + manteía, prophecy) podomancy/pedomancy → see somatomancy poe divination: by...
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Mesopotamian divination was divination within the Mesopotamian period. Perceptual elements utilized in the practice of a divinatory technique included...
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Geomancy (redirect from Geomantic divination)
"geomancy", from Late Greek *γεωμαντεία *geōmanteía translates literally to "earth divination". In Latin it becomes geomantia. Earlier Greek renditions of this...
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Cleromancy (category Divination)
A Reader (2nd ed.), ed. P. E. Dutton, 2009. "The Game of Waltes". Halliday, Greek Divination (1913), full online edition. Chapter 10 is on Kleromancy....
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Necromancy (category Divination)
'divination'). The Koine Greek compound form was first documented in the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century AD. The Classical Greek term...
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Aeromancy (category Divination)
Aeromancy (from Greek ἀήρ aḗr, "air", and manteia, "divination") is divination that is conducted by interpreting atmospheric conditions. Alternate spellings...
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Pyromancy (category Divination)
(Ancient Greek ἐμπυρία (empyria), divination by fire) is the art of divination by means of fire or flames. The word pyromancy is adapted from the Greek word...
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Cannot Tell Lies": Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination', in The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David...
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