10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORNITHOSCOPY»
Discover the use of
ornithoscopy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ornithoscopy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Selections Grave and Gay: From Writings Published and ...
Meantime, speaking of ornithoscopy in relation to Jews, I remember another story
in that subdivision of the subject which it may be worth while repeating; not
merely on its own account, as wearing a fine oriental air, but also for the
correction ...
2
Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy
(A. Pr. 484-499) Prometheus claims among his gifts the three most common
methods of the mantic art in tragedy and life: ornithoscopy, the observation of the
flight of birds; extispicy, the observation of the vital organs, particularly the liver, ...
3
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180
To argue that the Star of Bethlehem showed God's approval of astrology is like
saying that the Dove which appeared at Christ's Baptism was an invitation to
ornithoscopy, or divination from birds. The Fathers are quite unambiguous in their
...
4
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Meantime, speaking of ornithoscopy in relation to Jews, we remember another
story in that subdivision of the subject which it may be Worth while repeating; not
merely on its own account, as wearing a fine oriental air, but also for the
correction ...
5
Statius and the Thebaid
It begins with a ritual formula, invoking Jupiter as the sender of omens and '
causas. . .caelo latentes'; various oracular shrines are catalogued, but only to
make the point that ornithoscopy is the surest way of predicting the future (471-82
).
A mantis exercised a T$X»"»;IM he did not claim to operate by divine inspiration.
101 His chief domain was divination by sacrifices, although, as we shall see in
the next chapter, his functions extended into ornithoscopy, the interpretation of ...
William Kendrick Pritchett, 1974
7
Dictionary Of The Social Sciences
... family of see orientation. family of. ornithomancy divination from the flight or
cries of birds. ornlthomantic a. or nithomancer pers n. ornithoscopy see
ornithomancy. orphan dependent child who has lost one or both natural parents.
orphan, ...
8
Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... divination by observing mountain shapes, etc. orthinomancy, divination with
birds in flight; birds are also involved with orniscopy, ornithoscopy, and
ornomancy. oryctomancy, divination from things dug up. ossomancy, divination
with bones.
... into different languages (Hittite, Hurrian, Ugaritic). Ancient Israel practisedit
under Mesopotamian influence, as did the Greeks,Etruscans andRomans.
OTHER ORACLES The inspection of (sacrificial) birds ('ornithoscopy') involved
the.
10
The Jocastean Complex: A Kleinian Reading of Poetic Discourse
Here Oedipus derides Tiresias for using ornithoscopy, mantic knowledge
obtained from watching the flight of birds, an example of the divination methods
used in classical times. According to Jon Mikalson, Athenian seers were always
men ...
