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Divination - Forms

Parts of civilization people employed various means of divination of communicating with the supernatural one by seeking the assistance in their public and lives private. The divination generally is practised like means of envisaging the future, and sometimes last. It is one of the primary practices employed by witches, magicians, Shamans, of the wizards, and shamans. These various groups of people are often called the soothsayers, who often belonged the special classes of the priests and to the priestesses inside passed and civilizations, and are particularly formed in practice and the interpretation of their qualifications divinatory.

Methodology to practise the qualifications divinatory seems to be divided into two categories: the first is the observation and interpretation on normal phenomena, and the second is the observation and the interpretation of the “voluntary” phenomena synthetic. The normal phenomena includes two principal subcategories of activity: astrology, and hepatoscopy. With a little degree the observation of the following occurrences can also be enumerated under normal phenomena: unexpected the attack gives to, of the particular formations of cloud, the monstrosities of birth in the man and the animal, howl or of the artificial actions in the dogs, and the night-marish dreams.

Synthetic or “voluntary” phenomena is defined as being deliberately produced for the single goal of soothsaying and includes acts such as the necromancy, pouring oil in a basin of water to observe the formation of the bubbles and rings in the receptacle, the arrows of shooting, to draw lots, and many other acts.

The omen and the haruspicy supported by ancient Novels. The Egyptians, druids, and the Hebrews counted on scrying. The druids also read the anguish and the entrails of the sacrificed animals.

The Greeks had their oracle which spoke for the gods. In the grain of ages of medium, sand or the peas was thrown in the air on a field in order to read the models after the substances fell. As of 1000 BCE. the Chinese had “I CHING,” an oracle which comprised launching in the air and the reading of long short sticks of cream slice. Another practice divinatory Chinese antique which is still employed is “feng-shui,” or a geomancy, which implies the erection of the buildings, the tombs, and other structures physical by determining the currents of invisible energy running by the ground. Currently people also employ this principle for the arrangement of the pieces of furniture in their houses.

Many methods divinatory still are employed today, particularly in paganism, sorcery, the voodoo and Santeria. The majority of the Christians would be in disagreement probably but the prayer could also be considered an act divinatory. Many experts today do not feel that the signs of the divination are absolute or fixed, but to believe they always have free choices in their future. They believe that the divination the assistance by making better choices.

Some common or recognized forms of divination are:

AELUROMANCY: dropping wheatcakes in water and interpreting the result
AEROMANCY or ACROMANCY: divination by examining what the air does to certain things
ALECTOROMANCY or ALECTRYOMANCY: divination by a cock: grains of wheat are placed on letters and the cock "spells" the message by selecting grains
ALPHITOMANCY: dropping barleycakes in water and interpreting the result
ANTHROPOMANCY: divination by interpreting the organs of newly sacrificed humans
ARITHMANCY: divination by numbers
ASTRAGALOMANCY or ASTRAGYROMANCY: using knucklebones marked with letters of the alphabet
ASTROLOGY: by astronomical, zodiac constellations
ASTROMANCY: by stars
AXINOMANCY: divination by the hatchet: interpreting the quiver when whacked into a table
BELOMANCY: divination by arrows
BOTANOMANCY: divination by herbs
BRONCHIOMANCY: divination by studying the lungs of sacrificed white llamas
CAPNOMANCY: divination by the smoke of an altar or sacrificial incense
CARTOMANCY: by fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards
CATOPTROMANCY or CRYSTALLOMANCY: using mirrors or lenses
CEPHALOMANCY or CEPTHALEONOMANCY: divination by a donkey's head
CEROMANCY: by the melting of wax
CHALCOMANCY: by vessels of brass or other metal
CHIROMANCY: palmistry
CLEIDOMANCY: divination by interpreting the movements of a key suspended by a thread from the nail of the third finger on a young virgin's hand while one of the Psalms was recited
COSCINOMANCY: divination by a balanced sieve
CROMNIOMANCY: divination by onions
CRYSTALLOMANCY: by crystals
DACTYLOMANCY: divination by means of rings put on the fingernails or the number of whorls and loops on the fingers
DAPHNOMANCY: divination using the laurel branch: how did it crackle when burned?
DOWSING: by practices which some people claim enables them to detect hidden water, metals, gemstones or other objects, usually obstructed by land or sometimes located on a map
EXTISPICY: divination by examining entrails
FRACTOMANCY: interpreting the structures of fractal geometric patterns
GASTROMANCY: by the sound of or marks on the belly
GEOMANCY: by the placement of both secular and spiritual structures
GYROMANCY: divination by walking around a circle of letters until dizzy and one falls down on the letters or in the direction to take
HARUSPICY: inspecting the entrails of slaughtered animals
HEPATOSCOPY or HEPATOMANCY: divination by examining the liver of sacrificed ANIMALS
HYDROMANCY: divination by examining what certain things do in water or when taken out of water, such as coffee grounds or tea leaves; HYDATOSCOPY: if rainwater is used; PEGOMANCY: if spring-water is used
KAPNOMANCY: by smoke
KATOPTROMANCY: by looking0glasses
KEPHALONOMANCY: burning carbon on the head of an ass while reciting the names of suspected criminals; if you're guilty, a crackling sound will be heard when your name is spoken
KOSKINOMANCY: by sieves
KRITHOMANCY: by corn or grain
LAMPADOMANCY: interpreting the movements of the flame of a lamp
LIBANOMANCY or KNISSOMANCY: interpreting the smoke of incense
LITHOMANCY: divination using precious stones
LECANOMANCY: dropping precious stones into water and listening for whistles
LOGARITHMANCY: by logarithms, or logarithm tables; closely related to Numerology
MACHAROMANCY: by knives and swords
MARGARITOMANCY: divination by the pearl: if it jumps in the pot when a person is named, then he is the thief!
METOPOSCOPY: interpreting frontal wrinkles
MOLYBDOMANCY: divination by melted lead: interpreting its noises and hisses when dropped into water
MYRMOMANCY: divination by watching ants eating
NECROMANCY: communicating with spirits of the dead to predict the future
OINOMANCY: divination by wine
OMPHALOMANCY: interpretation of the belly button
ONEIROMANCY: interpretation of dreams
ONOMANCY: divination by names
ONYCHOMANCY: interpreting the reflection of sun rays off fingernails
ORNITHOMANCY or ORNISCOPY: interpreting the flights of birds
OVOMANCY or OOMANCY or OOSCOPY: breaking eggs into a container of water and interpreting the shape of the egg white
PAPYROMANCY: divination by folding paper
PODOMANCY: by the feet
PSYCHOMETRY: divination by touching objects
PYROMANCY or PYROSCOPY: divination by fire
RHABDOMANCY: using the divining rod or magic wand
RHAPSODMANCY: divination by a line in a sacred book that strikes the eye when the book is opened after the diviner prays, meditates or invokes the help of spirits
RUMPOLOGY: divination by the lines on the buttocks
SCAPULAMANCY: by reading signs from a fire-cracked shoulder blade of an animal
SCIOMANCY: by shadows
SCRYING: by employing forms of minerals, crystals, and gemstones in the divination of one's past, present, and future
SIDEROMANCY: interpreting straws thrown on a red-hot iron
SKATHAROMANCY: interpreting the tracks of a beetle crawling over the grave of a murder victim
STEREOMANCY: diving by the elements
SPATILOMANCY: by skin, bones, etc.
SPLANCHNOMANCY: reading cut sections of a goat liver
STICHOMANCY: another name for bibliomancy; divination by randomly choosing a word or verse and interpreting an oracular meaning from it to answer an enquirer's question usually concerning a course for future action.
STERNOMANCY: divination by the marks from the breast to the belly
SYCOMANCY: by figs
TASSEOGRAPHY: reading tea leaves
TEPHROMANCY: by ashes
THERIOMANCY: divination by beasts
TIROMANCY: interpreting the holes or mold in cheese
TYROMANCY: by cheese
URIM V'TUMIM: reading sacred stones attached to
the breastplate of the high priest in ancient Judaism
UROMANCY: divination by reading bubbles made by urinating in a pot