10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIEROSCOPY»
Discover the use of
hieroscopy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hieroscopy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Companion to Greek Religion
Hieroscopy, the examination of hiera, consisted of inspecting the signs left in the
entrails of sacrificed animals. Although absent from Homer, it was widespread
from the archaic period. Sacrifice was omnipresent, and hieroscopy made its ...
2
The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
HIEROSCOPY. Hieroscopy is divining by observing the movements of victims—
be they animal or human—as they are in the process of being led to sacrifice.
Fear, anger, horror, despair, frustration—all would be considered and interpreted.
3
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
See Hieroscopy. Hemerology. Literally the understanding of days. Calendrics.
Hepatoscopy. Divination by examination of the livers of sacrificial animals. Hiera.
“Normal” methods of sacrifice by armies on the move, typically including animal ...
4
Manual of Classical Literature
This was called Hieromancy (Upifiavrzia) or Hieroscopy (tcpotreuirfa). It
comprehended the observations of many particulars connected with the offering
of a victim, as portending good or ill. One nf the principal things was the
inspection of the ...
Johann Joachim Eschenburg, 1855
5
University of Michigan Official Publication
Husselmun, Elinor M. Am. Philol. Assn.; Women's Res. Club Univ. Mich. A
Fragment of Kalilah and Dimnah, from MS. 397 in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
London: Christophers, 1939. ix + 35 pp., 6 pis. A Greek Manual of Hieroscopy, ...
6
The Lancashire beacon. Ed., C. Southwell
They also ascribed Gods to the zodiac and the surveillance of each particular star
. The Chasdim divined also by birds, interpreted dreamo, explained prodigies,
and professed hieroscopy, or divination, by the inspection of the entrails of beasts
...
7
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Other common and highly developed methods of divination in the pre-Christian
period include augury, in which the behaviour of birds was noted, and hieroscopy
, in which the behaviour of sacrificial victims and, even more importantly, the ...
8
A Witch's Craft Volume 1: Dictionary for a Witch's Grimoire
Hieroscopy: (hi-ROS-ka-pee) Study of entrails. Higher Self: This is the non-
physical part of one's self. It is the actual, enlightened, persona of the person,
also called the soul or spirit. This is in opposition to what the person feels or
thinks ...
9
Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context
... auditory.16 these signs could be evoked or unprovoked. Methods of divination
normally in the visual category are teratomancy, morphoscopy, hieroscopy,
astronomy, empyromancy, dendromancy, aleuromancy, cleromancy, hydromancy
...
10
Studies in the book of Daniel
Not unwisely, also, do they act in matters concerning hieroscopy and are
supposed accurately to hit the mark. This philosophy is handed down from father
to son in a race which is freed from all other services. Finally, Quintus Curtius
Rufus, ...
