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Meaning of como invocar a un ornitomancio by Jimeno Álvarez





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como invocar a un ornitomancio
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The ornithomancy method is one of the most popular arts for divining the future employed in ancient Greece.The term comes from ornito, mantia, bird, and divination.This divination was based on making a series of predictions based on the birds, both in its external appearance their flights, their songs, their migrations, etc.This is a method already used in ancient civilizations, not only in Greece, but also in Roma.En ancient Rome, priests and auguries predicted their divinations in ceremonies called omens.Augures them had enormous power and any Roman, especially if I had important public office, is moving without having consulted before.As well, to determine these predictions, they employed several methods, one of which was the ornithomancy.In Greece, the most popular of the ornitomanticos was the blind Tiresias.Para to launch their analysis of birds, always carried with him a seeing-eye, who was describing his flight, color, etc.Ornithomancy also has been left feeling in popular literature, since in the comic the adventures of Asterix and Obelix, the Druid Getafix had prescient visions to see flocks of birds flying.

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