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Better late than never with a BEAST of a video. Also didn't help I disappeared for another weekend 😅 Anyway. Enjoy! Also! Thank you all so so much for the 1k 🧡 Support me on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/feltheblithe Link to Homeric Oracle: https://www.hellenion.org/homericoracle/ Link to Alphabet Oracle: http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/GAO.html Link to statue oracle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufI-E0I18H8dJweXW84XjVoIZl0PEU8x/view?usp=sharing PRIMARY SOURCES: • On Divination by Cicero • Homeric Hymn to Hermes • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus • Works and Days by Hesiod • The Iliad by Homer • The Odyssey by Homer • Orphic Hymn 51 to the Nymphs • Pausanias' Guide to Greece Book 3 • Phaedrus by Plato • On the Heaves by Aristotle • Confessions by Augustine • Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus • The Greek Magical Papyri SECONDARY SOURCES: • Ancient Greek Divination by Sarah Iles Johnston • Ancient Studies in Divination by Johnston, Burkert et al YOUTUBE CHANNELS • Aliakai: https: https://www.youtube.com/c/Aliakai/featured Like what I do? Support me on Ko-Fi 🤗 https://ko-fi.com/feltheblithe For business inquiries: [email protected] I also am a co-host of the the podcast Test Tubes and Cauldrons, an intersection of science and spirituality. Find us here or anywhere you get podcasts:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2s0Zf78zGLAOOg-u7GhUw COPYRIGHT INFO: Sound is: "Announcement Sound 4" by DDmyzik and is licensed under the Attribution Noncommercial License. Found on Freesound. Sound is: 20110409.choir.01.wav by dobroide and is licensed under the Attribution License. Found on Freesound. Lamp is: Oil lamp, 3rd c AD, AM of Nemea, 201854 and s licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Astragaloi is: Knuckle bones in the archeological museum at Kyrenia Castle in Girne, Cyprus. and is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Song is "Hum Song" written and produced by me and is licensed under the Attribution 4.0 license, contact me for use. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 0:30 What is and why divination? 4:10 Divination in the Classical Age 5:50 How did they think divination worked? 9:35 "Low" vs "High" Divination 10:45 Types of Divination 11:02 Augury 12:45 Entrail reading 13:56 Dreams 15:23 Dice & Lots 20:15 Scrying 24:22 Nature & Chance happenings 25:46 What about astrology and necromancy? 27:44 Application to the modern age 30:44 **Bonus* Divination by art 32:10 Conclusion