| Omphilomancy is divination by contemplating the navel, while haruspicy makes use of the entrails of animals to predict what is in store for us. |
| The Roman Senate also held haruspicy in the highest regard and consulted haruspices before all important state decisions. |
| These include oracular directives, augury, oneiromancy and haruspicy. |
| The most important form of divination was haruspicy, or hepatoscopy the study of the details of the viscera, especially the livers, of sacrificial animals. |
