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Her family went back to the
Peloponnese. She took thought for a man entrusted with a military command who was sent with others to the war against the Vandals in Sicily. She prayed to foresee the future by dream and prayed facing the rising sun. Her father prescribed and commanded her in a dream to pray toward the west. When she prayed, a cloud from the upper air stood around the sun, and became enlarged and took the shape of a man. Another cloud sheared off and rendered itself of equal size and took the shape of a wild lion. It went into a great rage and, having made a great chasm, the lion swallowed the man. The human, cloud-made shape was like a Goth. A little more about the apparitions; Thereupon the emperor Leo slew Aspar himself, the hegemon of the Goths (in Constantinople) and his children. From that time Anthusa has continued until now without interruption to practice the custom of mantic predition through clouds.
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Wherefore one finds a woman in the days of Leo the Roman emperor who knew neither by sense of hearing nor by the ancient practices the art of divination by clouds. The woman came from Aigai in
Cilicia, having come from the family of the Orestiadai who dwell on the mountain at Komana in Cappadocia.
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Variations on the concept have been used throughout history, the practice is thought to have been used by the ancient
Babylonian priests, and is probably alluded to in the bible.
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Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages".
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149:. In contrast, english christian bibles typically translate the same hebrew words into "soothsayers" and "conjurers" or the like.
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that were supposedly displayed by thunder or lightning that occurred on particular days of the year, or in particular places.
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Thorndike, Lynn (July 1927). "Alfodhol and
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457:(1967). Clemens, Zintzen (ed.).
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510:Turfa, Jean MacIntosh (2012),
130:of the future, based upon the
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176:). It was thus condemned by
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421:The Jewish Quarterly Review
23:An approaching thunderstorm
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172:), and spatulamancy (
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302:Western esotericism
184:as a derivative of
42:, "divination") is
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186:necromancy
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128:divination
44:divination
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166:pyromancy
122:produced
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76:lightning
28:Aeromancy
1177:Prophecy
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1033:Haruspex
1007:Taghairm
928:Opon IfĂĄ
738:Myomancy
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533:(1975),
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203:Part of
196:See also
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1167:Onmyodo
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1079:African
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824:Dowsing
801:Scrying
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383:2910532
265:Related
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72:thunder
40:manteia
1192:Vision
1172:Oracle
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