What does hydromancy mean?
Hydromancy means Divination by water or other liquid..
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Divination by water or other liquid..
Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.
Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.
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Hydromancy means Divination by water or other liquid..
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Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.
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