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Ornithomancy

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study of eighteenth century politics in England with a quotation from Aeschylus on ornithomancy: “I took pains to determine the flight of crook-taloned birds, marking which were of the right by nature, and which were of the left, and what were their ways of living, each after his
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Ornithomancy could be spontaneous, or it could be the result of a formal consultation: the seer would face north, and birds on their right—the east, the direction of sunrise—were taken as favourable (the reverse being true of the Roman augur, who by contrast faced
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in Anatolia, with texts on bird oracles written in Hittite known from the 13th or 14th century BCE, and from whom the Greek practice may derive. It was also familiar to the
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Omens from observation of the flight of birds were considered with the utmost seriousness by Romans. The practice of ornithomancy by priests called
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claim to have introduced ornithomancy to mankind, by indicating among the birds “those by nature favourable, and those/Sinister”.
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from before the founding of the city, which had its own priestly college to supervise its practice.
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Ornithomancy in some form has been found globally among a wide variety of pre-industrial peoples.
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Baumbach, Manuel & Trampedach, Kai (2004). "'Winged Words': Poetry and Divination in
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Ornithomancy dates back to early Greek times, appearing on Archaic vases, as well as in
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Etruscan wall painting from Tomba degli Auguri (c. 530 BC) showing two augurs
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from the actions of birds followed in many ancient cultures including the
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One of the black bird sculptures of Taivoan people in the Public Hall
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predominantly looked at birds for omens, they were also called
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which was to "take omens from birds in flight." Since Roman
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The word "inauguration" is derived from the Latin noun
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Index

Anthropology of religion

Afterlife
Animism
Augury
Communitas
Comparative religion
Divination
Divine language
Evolutionary origin of religion
Fetishism
Great Spirit
Henotheism
Initiation
Laying on of hands
Liminality
Magic (supernatural)
Mana
Monotheism
Nympholepsy
Oracle
Pilgrimage
Polytheism
Rite of passage
Ritual
Sacred language
Sacred–profane dichotomy
Sacred site
Shamanism
Soul dualism

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