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Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial evidence.. Divination is a traditional set of methods of consulting divinity to obtain prophecies (theopropia) about specific circumstances defined be
A "seer" or prophet who was sent to rebuke king Asa of Judah for entering into a league with Ben-Hadad I, king of Syria, against the northern kingdom of Israel. Anani depicted in Nuremberg Chronicles (1493) Hanani was imprisoned in stocks by Asa (2 Chronicles 16:7-10).
Classical oracles is a category for the oracle-sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books - real, forged or imagined - of Greek and Roman antiquity. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Calchas (/ ˈ k æ l k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Κάλχας, Kalkhas) is an Argive mantis, or "seer," dated to the Age of Legend, which is an aspect of Greek mythology.Calchas appears in the opening scenes of the Iliad, which is believed to have been based on a war conducted by the Achaeans against the powerful city of Troy in the Late Bronze Age.
The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar ("Dark Kenneth"), and Kenneth Mackenzie, was, according to legend, a predictor of the future who lived in the 17th century. The Brahan Seer is regarded by some to be the creation of the folklorist Alexander MacKenzie (1838–1898) whose accounts occur well after some of the ...
The prophet left. In Sophocles' Antigone , Creon, now king of Thebes, refused to allow the burial of Creon's nephew Polynices and decreed to bury alive his niece, Antigone , for defying the order. Tiresias warned him that Polynices should be urgently buried because the gods were displeased, refusing to accept any sacrifices or prayers from Thebes.
Vates in English is a borrowing of a Latin noun vātēs (pronounced [ˈwaːteːs]), "prophet, poet". This Latin noun was either a cognate of Celtic * wātis (in which case the two words were descended from a common Italo-Celtic origin), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] or else a loanword directly from Celtic. [ 1 ]
Phinehas – Biblical priest and prophet who opposed the heresy of Peor; Eli – High priest of Shiloh in ancient Israel; Elkanah – Husband of Hannah and father of Samuel in the Books of Samuel; Samuel – Biblical prophet and seer; Gad – Seer or prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible; Natan – Person in the Hebrew Bible