haruspicy

Haruspicy continued to be practised throughout the history of the Roman Empire.

Organized efforts to predict the future began with practices like astrology, haruspicy, and augury.

They called the art of haruspicy zich nethsrac.

Haruspicy was also used in public cult, under the supervision of the augur or presiding magistrate.

Divination through haruspicy is a tradition originating from the Fertile Crescent.

Haruspicy: by the livers of sacrificed animals.

Theodosius reiterated Constantine's ban on pagan sacrifice and haruspicy on pain of death.

Perhaps the haruspicy has clasped my heart, fulminating le trahison des clercs, its strange and slightly fishy awe.

The Etruscan Liber Linteus; contains etexts of the book, proposed translations, and notes on haruspicy.

Haruspicy is the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry.

Satre or Satres was an Etruscan god who appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model used for haruspicy.

In 384 he prohibited haruspicy on pain of death, and unlike earlier anti-pagan prohibitions, he made non-enforcement of the law, by Magistrates, into a crime itself.

The omens, however, were likely determined by the art of haruspicy, the examination of the entrails, and especially the livers, of sacrificed animals for divinatory signs.

Some of Tinia's defining epithets are detailed on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy.

Containing writing on its surface delineating the various parts of the liver and their significance, it was likely used as an educational tool for students studying haruspicy, or divination.

The liver is subdivided into sections for the purposes of performing haruspicy (hepatoscopy); the sections are inscribed with names of individual Etruscan deities.

In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by an haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

Haruspicy was part of a larger study of organs for the sake of divination, called extispicy, paying particular attention to the positioning of the organs and their shape.

According to Lactantius, this began with a report of ominous haruspicy in Diocletian's domus and a subsequent (but undated) dictat of placatory sacrifice by the entire military.

Most Roman authors describe haruspicy as an ancient, ethnically Etruscan "outsider" religious profession, separate from Rome's internal and largely unpaid priestly hierarchy, essential but never quite respectable.

The Divine Liver - The Art and Science of Haruspicy as Practiced by the Etruscans and Romans (W/42 card set)

The only representation of this god is the one on a mirror, showing him attending the lesson in divination (haruspicy) given, in Tarquinia, to the culture hero Tarchon by prophet Tages.

Many ancient peoples of the Near East and Mediterranean areas practiced a type of divination called haruspicy, where they tried to obtain information by examining the livers of sheep and other animals.

Of these, the majority are inscribed in Akkadian, but a few examples also have inscriptions in the native Hittite language, indicating the adoption of haruspicy as part of the native, vernacular cult.

The senate and armies used the public haruspices: at some time during the late Republic, the Senate decreed that Roman boys of noble family be sent to Etruria for training in haruspicy and divination.