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[[Image:Rhumsiki crab sorceror.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A diviner in [[Rhumsiki]], [[Cameroon]].]]
[[Image:Rhumsiki crab sorceror.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A diviner in [[Rhumsiki]], [[Cameroon]].]]
'''Divination''' (Greek μαντεια, from μαντις "[[seer]]") is an attempt to get [[information]] through [[omen]]s or [[supernatural]] things. The [[:wikt:verb|verb]] form is ''to divine'', but this should not be confused with the [[:wikt:adjective|adjective]] ''divine''. Divining the outcome of things has been done by many different [[:wikt:method|methods]], such as the ones listed below.
'''Divination''' (Greek μαντεια, from μαντις "[[seer]]") is an attempt to get [[information]] through [[omen]]s or [[supernatural]] things. The [[:verb|verb]] form is ''to divine'', but this should not be confused with the [[:adjective|adjective]] ''divine''. Divining the outcome of things has been done by many different [[:method|methods]], such as the ones listed below.
Divination is different from [[fortune-telling]]. Divination is more [[ritual]], usually [[religion|religious]]. Fortune-telling is more for personal things.
Divination is different from [[fortune-telling]]. Divination is more [[ritual]], usually [[religion|religious]]. Fortune-telling is more for personal things.
== Types of divination ==
== Types of divination ==
* [[Astrology]] (by celestial bodies)
* [[Astrology]] (by celestial bodies)
* [[Ailuromancy]] (by the behaviour of felines)
* [[Ailuromancy]] (by the behaviour of felines)
* [[Sternomancy]] (by markings or bumps on the chest)
* [[Sternomancy]] (by markings or bumps on the chest)
* [[Taromancy]] (by specially designed cards: [[Tarot]]; see also Cartomancy)
* [[Taromancy]] (by specially designed cards: [[Tarot]]; see also Cartomancy)
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== Divination Media ==
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File:Divination display at the Pitt Rivers Museum.jpg|Display on divination, featuring a cross-cultural range of items, in the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] in [[Oxford]], [[England]]
File:ChickenDivination.jpg|[[Russia]]n peasant girls using [[chicken]]s for divination; 19th-century [[lubok]].
File:Safavid Dynasty, Joseph Enthroned from a Falnama (Book of Omens), circa 1550 AD.jpg|Joseph Enthroned. Folio from the "Book of Omens" (''[[Falnama]]''), [[Safavid dynasty]]. 1550. [[Freer Gallery of Art]]. This painting would have been positioned alongside a prognostic description of the meaning of this image on the page opposite (conventionally to the left). The reader would flip randomly to a place in the book and digest the text having first viewed the image.
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== Related pages ==
== Related pages ==
*[[Oracle]]
*[[Oracle]]
== Other websites ==
== Other websites ==
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*[http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm Divination Methods] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824211439/http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm |date=2007-08-24 }}
*[http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm Divination Methods] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824211439/http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm |date=2007-08-24 }}
* [http://www.iranian.com/Sep96/Iranica/IranicaDivine/IranicaDivine.html Encyclopedia Iranica: Divination]
* [http://www.iranian.com/Sep96/Iranica/IranicaDivine/IranicaDivine.html Encyclopedia Iranica: Divination]
*[http://tim.maroney.org/Essays/Theory_of_Divination.html Theory of Divination] by Tim Maroney, exploring different possibilities
*[http://tim.maroney.org/Essays/Theory_of_Divination.html Theory of Divination] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814122245/http://tim.maroney.org/Essays/Theory_of_Divination.html |date=2007-08-14 }} by Tim Maroney, exploring different possibilities
*[http://www.religionebooks.com/docu/skull.htm The Sator Formula engraved on a human skull]
*[http://www.religionebooks.com/docu/skull.htm The Sator Formula engraved on a human skull] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927063303/http://www.religionebooks.com/docu/skull.htm |date=2008-09-27 }}
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