Everything about Extispicy totally explained
Extispicy (from
Latin extispicium) is the practice of using
anomalies in
animal entrails to predict divine future events.
Organs inspected can include the
liver,
intestines,
lungs, or other major organs. The animal used for extispicy must often be
ritually pure and
slaughtered in a special
ceremony.
The practice was first common in ancient
Mesopotamian,
Hittite and
Canaanite temples. Later,
soothsayers from
Ancient Roman times used the
entrails of a bull to determine the advisability of a particular endeavor and
Etruscans used patterns seen in the
livers of sheep to assess their future.
Organ models and
extispicy manuals in
cuneiform script are widely found in
archaeological excavations in the regions, showing the prevalence and significance of extispicy.
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