The ancient rite of reading the future from the organs of a sacrificed animal, practised by the Mesopotamian baru priest in barutu and by the Etruscan and Roman haruspex and the Greek extispicy specialist. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes divination by the entrails of an animal. It excludes cards and casting. Examples in the atlas include Extispicy and Haruspicy and Barutu (Mesopotamian Extispicy).
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Haruspex (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Barutu (Mesopotamian Extispicy), Introduction, sentence 2
Various ancient cultures of the Near East, such as the Babylonians, also read omens specifically from the liver, a practice also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).
Has Member: Extispicy and Haruspicy, Introduction, sentence 1
A haruspex was a person trained to practise divination by the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry, a practice called haruspicy in the Ancient Roman religion.
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