Haruspex
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title:
Haruspex
text:
In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy, the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. Various ancient cultures of the Near East, such as the Babylonians, also read omens specifically from the liver, a practice also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy. The Roman concept is directly derived from Etruscan religion, as one of the three branches of the disciplina
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description:
Person trained to practise a form of divination
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex
date created:
2003-06-20T04:28:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T13:44:18Z
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