Divination

In particular the divination (or Mantique ) is the art of the Devin S to apprehend what is hidden, and to envisage the future. That called upon interpretation by association of ideas according to a intuitive or very codified Hermeneutics, and with the credulity of people (Effet Barnum) who are unaware of if they are vis-a-vis the oracle of a sincere soothsayer or a charlatan.

Its practice goes up at least with the Mésopotamie with the ancient Egypt, then it was transmitted to the religions gréco - Roman, then with the Islamic Civilization, to emerge in Occident at the 12th century and to know, in spite of the repression of the Église, a real development. The Romans often resort to the art of the divination, the art of reading in predict. They give the responsability with the priests to interpret them.

Specialists

  • the oracles;

  • soothsayers;
  • the Omen S or auspices: divination by the observation of the flight of the birds;
  • the Haruspice S: by the observation of the entrails of an animal sacrificed
  • the Vate S
  • the indicators.

Techniques

Plato (Phèdre, 244b-d) distinguishes two types of divination : on the one hand, the divination inspired whose most known example is that of the Pythea of Delphes whose body is had by a god, and, on the other hand, the divination by signs, based on the observation of fortuitous or caused signs. In this second type, one observes many techniques:

Prophecies of Sybille of Cumes were collected by the Romans under the name of Livres Sybillins, consulted in the event of extraordinary event threatening Rome.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • David COLLING, Christian Perceptions of the Roman practices divinatoires

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