Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 3, 2025
The heart was of less significance in ancient thought than the liver, it being of less size, and its function in the circulation of the blood not being known. The brain also did not come, until a comparatively late period, to be regarded as the seat of the intellect. +921+. From these external signs we may now pass to consider divinatory facts derived from men's inward experience. Dreams.
His two cousins having no presumption of the divinatory science, of which shepherds have had many passing attacks, had often talked before him of their secret goings on, counting him as nothing.
For an instant she felt as if the stalwart Englishmen, the governing race, whom she knew so well, were only children short-sighted and frigid children that these really submissive Egyptians, Baroudi, Ibrahim, and the praying Hamza, were crafty and hot-blooded men with a divinatory power. "Your coffee," said Baroudi, handing to her a cup.
All the material of his art was comprised in a kind of basket, of which a calebash formed the bottom, and which was filled with shells, amulets, little wooden idols, and other fetiches, plus a notable quantity of dung balls, important accessories to the incantations and divinatory practises of the center of Africa. One peculiarity was soon discovered by the crowd. This magician was dumb.
He slays sacred animals for divinatory and other religious purposes, for food, or in self-defense; he fears their anger, but his fear is overcome by hunger; he offers profuse apologies, explains that he acts without ill will and that the bones of the animal will be preserved and honored, or he declares that it is not he but some one else that is the slayer but he does not hesitate to kill.
Next, according to the habit of astrologers, he proceeded to divide the firmament into Angles and Houses, and taking seat by the table, arranged the lamp to suit him, started the hour-glass running, and drew a diagram familiar to every adept in divinatory science a diagram of the heavens with the Houses numbered from one to twelve inclusive.
Astronomy appears to have been pursued in the first instance not from interest in the natural laws governing the movements of sun, moon, and stars, but from belief in their divinatory significance.
+915+. Of all divinatory methods astrology has played the greatest rôle in human history, and is still believed in and studied by not a few persons. It was necessarily a learned pursuit, and, falling naturally into the hands of priestly bodies, was developed by them in accordance with the needs of the situation. Rules of interpretation were established that became more and more specific.
We have seen such places before; we have visited them in that divinatory glance which strays away into space for a moment over the top of a suggestive book.
+916+. The words and actions of men and their normal peculiarities of bodily form have furnished comparatively few divinatory signs, the reason being, probably, that in early times animals and other nonhuman things arrested the attention of observers more forcibly, while in later times such acts and forms were more readily explained from natural conditions and laws.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking