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