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	Bible-mancy and Divination
		Thus, written records were made of unusual happenings in the sky, and similar occurrences, and divination moved from the realm of folklore to the level of a scientific activity (Oppenheim 1977:210).
		Divination moves out of its most primitive phase, seeking the somewhat random and certainly unsolicited advisements of the gods in the practises of hepatoscopy and extispicy Ñ ritualized slaughter for the purpose of interpreting the encoded signs on the entrails of sacrificial animals.
		Communication from divinity is now actively solicited as, for example, in extispicy preceded by invocations to the god, who is asked to inscribe an answer to the question on the entrails of the animal about to be sacrificed (cf.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~eslinger/genrels/issues/Divination.html (942 words)

	Extispicy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Extispicy (from Latin extispicium) is the practice of using anomalies in animals' entrails to divine future events.
		The animal used for extispicy must often be ritually pure and slaughtered in a special ceremony.
		Organ models and extispicy manuals in cuneiform script are widely found in archaeological excavations in the regions, showing the prevalence and significance of extispicy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extispicy (147 words)

	Extispicy: Burning From the Inside
		Two oxen had been sacrificed by the priests for guidance, but when they put the sacrificed animals into the ritual fire, the oxen were consumed by the fire completely and much too quickly than was normal.
		Extispicy was a fairly involved hieromantic ritual with several different parts to it.
		Extispicy rituals started with the actual sacrifice and evisceration of the animal, followed by the entrail examination, and after that the entrails and the rest of the animal's carcass would be put onto a ritual fire.
	www.batcafe.com /batblog/archives/000144.html (696 words)

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		Extispicy has preeminence over all other forms of prophecy in the ancient Near East and has itself experienced its own evolution.[15] First, the Babylonians and the Assyrians were developers of the art of omens one to two thousand years before the common era.
		Extispicy was not halakhically practised in Israel nor scripturally authorized for Israelites.
		Extispicy normally succeeded the spoken oracle, and traditionally preceded any other form of prophecy, but as the need for the hair and hem of a private prophet came to no longer be regarded as necessary neither would the need for an extispicy.
	www.j-e-s-u-s.org /mike/prophetism.txt (3741 words)

	Extispicy
		Extispicy (from Latin extispicium) is the practice of using anomalies in animals' entrails to divine future events.
		The animal used for extispicy must often be ritually pure and slaughtered in a special ceremony.
		Organ models and extispicy manuals in cuneiform script are widely found in archaeological excavations in the regions, showing the prevalence and significance of extispicy.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DExtispicy%26type%3Den (161 words)

	Review of Ulla Susanne Koch, Secrets of Extispicy
		tablets likely represent the periphery of esoteric learning since they were not part of the extispicy series, were not connected to its commentaries, and did not achieve the quasi-canonical form that the other texts did, they are still of critical importance for shedding light on the other tablets and the learning they contain.
		Since most readers, including many Assyriologists, will be unfamiliar with details of extispicy, Koch introduces the subject by discussing the contents and compositional structures of the texts and the relationship of the texts to one another (pp.
		The Chapters Manzāzu, Padān, and Pān tākalti of the Extispicy Series, mainly from Aššurbanipal’s Library (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, 25; Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000).
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /JHS/reviews/review226.htm (740 words)

	The Image of Heaven
		The key principle in Babylonian extispicy is that the right represents pars familiaris and the left pars hostilis.
		This means that any depression or deficiency which in itself was considered of negative value would cause an unfavorable omen result when it appeared on a right side and a favorable one on a left side.
		Extispicy, divining by the entrails of sacrificial sheep, and more specifically hepatoscopy, "liver-examination," was the highest form of the diviner's art.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/tintirbabylon/liver.html (2983 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.06.29
		In the letter he reveals that extispicies have shown that the evil portent of a recent lunar eclipse does not bode ill for the king but that further divination is needed to confirm that interpretation.
		As this and many dozens of similar letters from Mari show, revealed divination in the form of extispicy was at this time the most prestigious and reliable means of reading the gods' intentions.
		The liver diviners and celestial diviners appear to have carried equal weight in court: extispicy was still used to formulate specific yes/no questions to the gods on military and political matters, as well as to confirm or refute medical advice.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-06-29.html (3369 words)

	CDLJ 2006:3
		Extispicy is squarely set within the largest part of the hymn which concerns itself with Šulgi’s innate and natural abilities (ll.
		After I have determined a sound omen through extispicy from a white lamb and a sheep, water and flour are libated at the place of invocation.
		Kollationen zu den sumerischen literarischen Texten aus Nippur in der Hilprecht-Sammlung Jena (=ASAW 65/4).
	www.cdli.ucla.edu /pubs/cdlj/2006/cdlj2006_003.html (2734 words)

	Extispicy (or Extispicium)
		The practice of extispicy came to the Etrurians from the Babylonians as most forms of
		Signs predicting a potential instant disaster were if the priest let the entrails fall, if there was more bloodiness than usual, or they entrails were of a livid color.
		The entrails of the animals in the area were examined to determine if the area was healthy to make camp in.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/e/extispicy_or_extispicium.html (240 words)

	Wikinfo \| Divination
		It can be qualitative (such as shapes, proximities, etc.) Dowsing (a form of rhabdomancy) developed from this type of divination.
		The Romans in classical times used Etruscan methods of augury such as hepatoscopy (actually a form of extispicy).
		Extispicy (divination from the exta of sacrificed animals)
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=divination (666 words)

	PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY STEPHANIE SOLLOW
		The word may have been derived from the Sanskrit root hira ('entrails').
		A synonymous term is extispicy." (and with tobasco sauce, extraspicy).
		This meaning comes clear not by the cover, but by the tray insert, an illustration of a robed figure poking and prodding...well, you can guess.
	www.progressiveworld.net /theredmasque3.html (858 words)

	First Kings 21:17-19 The Evolution Of Prophetism At Mari And Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Extispicy has preeminence over all other forms of prophecy in the ancient Near East and has itself experienced its own evolution.
		The prophecies uttered by any of these persons needed to be authenticated by "objective" extispicy.
		[35] In either the public or the private prophecies, the king would be encouraged to authenticate the prediction by means of extispicy, if he thought it necessary.
	www.j-e-s-u-s.org /mike/prophetism.htm (4794 words)

	Museum Tusculanums Forlag - Babylonian Liver Omens
		The canonical version of the Babylonian omen series concerned with barûtu: extispicy (divination from entrails of sheep), consisted of ten chapters or sub-series, and are among the first intellectual adventures of Ancient Man into the field of science.
		She is the author of Mesopotamian Astrology (1994).
		"While the topic of extispicy is important for understanding many aspects of Mesopotamian culture, there are few books available on the topic.
	www.mtp.hum.ku.dk /details.asp?eln=200191 (340 words)

	Dove Booksellers Order Page: Ulla Koch-Westenholz, Babylonian Liver Omens: The Chapters Manzazu, Padanu and Pan Takalti ...
		The canonical version of the Babylonian omen series concerned with barutu: extispicy (divination from entrails of sheep), consisted of ten chapters or sub-series, and are among the first intellectual adventures with the front of the liver, are edited here for the first time.
		"While the topic of extispicy is important for understanding many aspects of Mesopotamian culture, there are few books available on the topic.
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	www.dovebook.com /new/bookdesc.asp?BookID=26069 (281 words)

	Pyromancy Classes CLASSES and psyromancers
		Pyromancy the ancient art of divination by fire.
		Pyromancy is divination by fire which was used in the ancient practice of extispicy.
		By reading the flames of a sacrificial fire a prophecy was made for the future and pyromancy has been used for centuries to obtain auguries of the future.
	www.psychics.co.uk /pyromancy.html (107 words)

	Extispicy
		This form of divination is sometimes considered to be part of augury.
		The practice of Extispicy came to the Greeks and Romans from either the Etruscans or the earlier cultures of Babylonia and Assyria.
		Its underlying theory was that when an animal — usually a sheep or an ox — was sacrificed, it was absorbed by the god to which it had been offered, creating a direct channel to the deity.
	www.occultopedia.com /e/extispicy.htm (4870 words)

	The Legend of Naram-Sin or The Cursing of Agade
		He realized what the dream was about, but did not put into words, and did not discuss it with anyone.
		perform (?) extispicy regarding (?) his temple.......) Because of the E-kur, he put on mourning clothes, covered his chariot with a reed mat (1 ms.
		For a second time he went to perform extispicy on a kid regarding the temple, but the omen again had nothing to say about the building of the temple.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /sitchin/guerradioses/guerradioses01a.htm (2865 words)

	Sudoku Players' Forums :: View topic - What am I? (14)
		Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:57 am Post subject:
		Haruspex or the plural haruspices was what I was after or extispicy.
		A more modern day approach to haruspex is the practice of ooscopy - the study of the insides of an egg.
	www.sudoku.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=30028 (538 words)

	Dr. Weevil: Prediction: The European Union, Where Will It All End? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I think it is time to begin pondering where it will all end.
		I have no professional training in astrology, augury, or extispicy (love that word!), and no Jamaican blood (though Miss Cleo may not, either), but here's my prediction:
		The European Union will break up before the century is out, probably with several decades to spare.
	www.drweevil.org /archives/000044.html (452 words)

	1994-95 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL REPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The article summarizes previous scholarship and attempts to further understand these divinatory languages.
		It is interesting to note that while augury was performed by male "bird-watchers" and extispicy and sheep behavior oracle by male diviner-exorcists, the symbol oracles were performed by a female professional diviner-exorcist.
		By studying these oracle questions we find many otherwise unrecorded aspects of Hittite society and cult and see a method the Hittites used to question their gods in order to gain psychologically some way of control over their environment and destiny.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/AR/94-95/94-95_Ind_Beal.html (318 words)

	Media Releases
		Louise Permazel, Barry Kay and Kurt Geyer, who form the company Extispicy, will perform their new work titled Ricochet on Friday September 26.
		The free performance will be held at the University of Ballarat Camp Street Campus, Helen Macpherson Smith Performing Arts Theatre (formerly New South Theatre), at 6pm.
		The talented group shares a love for passionate, challenging, entertaining and visceral theatre.
	www.ballarat.edu.au /media_releases/print_display.cgi?id=329 (279 words)

	Introduction to Gnosis #46
		Other, more sanguinary, means have long been available as well.
		There is haruspicy or extispicy, the time-honored (but now forgotten) art of reading the future in the entrails of sacrificed animals.
		For matters of great import, the ancient Druids had an even more extreme method.
	www.lumen.org /intros/intro46.html (2019 words)

	Divination Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Aruspicy is sometimes considered to be a form of augury (interpreting form and behavior of animals).
		Similar to Anthropomancy (interpretation of human entrails) and Heiromancy (interpretation of sacrificed animals) Also known as Haruspicy, Extispicy, Extispicium
		ASPIDOMANCY: Divining by entering casting a circle and summoning an entity.
	www.divinitydice.com /dictionary.htm (3523 words)

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