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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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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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468:(1967). Clemens, Zintzen (ed.).
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432:The Jewish Quarterly Review
34:An approaching thunderstorm
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359:References
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234:nigromancy
197:necromancy
173:hydromancy
139:divination
55:divination
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1124:Astrology
1114:Apophenia
1069:Rumpology
1064:Podomancy
1059:Palmistry
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849:Elemental
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249:aeromancy
181:palmistry
177:pyromancy
133:produced
105:Damascius
87:lightning
39:Aeromancy
1188:Prophecy
1161:Gematria
1139:Geomancy
1044:Haruspex
1018:Taghairm
939:Opon IfĂĄ
749:Myomancy
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664:20527358
593:Speculum
544:(1975),
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216:a series
214:Part of
207:See also
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65:Practice
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1145:I Ching
1090:African
914:Kumalak
835:Dowsing
812:Scrying
787:Falnama
613:2847724
452:1452355
394:2910532
276:Related
97:History
91:meteors
83:thunder
51:manteia
1203:Vision
1183:Oracle
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