Haruspex
In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina), the inspection of the entrails (extaâhence also extispicy (extispicium)) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. The…
BÄrĂ»tu, the âart of the divinerâ
The BÄrĂ»tu, the âart of the diviner,â is a monumental ancient Mesopotamian compendium of the science of extispicy or sacrificial omens stretching over around a hundred cuneiform tablets which was assembled in the Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian period based upon earlier…









