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- Have forecasters come a long way from haruspicy?
- Theodosius reiterated Constantine's ban on pagan sacrifice and haruspicy on pain of death.
- Organized efforts to predict the future began with practices like astrology, haruspicy, and augury.
- Cel appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a liver marked for the Etruscan practice of haruspicy.
- Some of Tinia's possible epithets are detailed on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy.
- 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.
- "' Anthropomancy "'( from Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy ( performed by an haruspex ), in which the sacrifice was an animal.
- 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.
- 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.
- Modern variations have the " albularyo " use other materials for divination purposes, such as eggs, mirrors, plain paper, cigarettes, chewing gum, chicken feathers, and the liver of a freshly-slaughtered chicken or pig ( the last one classically known in the West as haruspicy ).
- The art of haruspicy was taught in the " Libri Tagetici ", a collection of texts attributed to Tages, a childlike being who figures in Etruscan mythology, and who was discovered in an open field by Tarchon; the " Libri Tagetici " were translated into Latin and employed in reading omens.
- Carl Thulin proposed that two theonyms from the Piacenza Liver a bronze model of a sheep's liver covered with Etruscan inscriptions pertaining to haruspicy ought to be identified with the two councils, " Cilens ( l ) " with the Novensiles and " Thufltha ( s ) " with the " Consentes Penates ".
- Cicero concerns himself in some detail with the types of divination, dividing them into the " inspired " type ( Latin " furor ", Gk . " mania ", " madness " ), especially dreams, and the type which occurs via some form of skill of interpretation ( " i . e . ", haruspicy, extispicy, augury, astrology, and other oracles ).