#AUGURY

[piristephes]

bird-watching for omens is fun until it becomes very dramatic and suddenly you understand every moment in the Illiad where Khalkas predicts doom by watching birds.

[sunshines-bee-farm]

[ashes2caches]

finally

[theancientirishcraft]

[gavamont]

A wizard that uses tofu thrown against the wall for augury. She uses firmer tofus for matters that are soon to pass because it’s more likely to make a cohesive shape or symbol to interpret the future from, and this made it very insulting when I asked how my next date would go and she threw a silky tofu scramble against the wall.

[anna-cute-049]

We were supposed to have 3 labor lessons at school, but the teacher was very busy. And our class teacher gave us sheets of paper and said: Draw whatever you want. And she left.

During all 3 labor lessons I drew this.

I don't know about you, but I like it.^^

I love them. (>w<)💕✨️💕✨️

[incredible-sugar-venus]

hehek loan :3

[undercover13agent16]

2 news anchors meet each other.

(ONE OF THEM IS NOT A NEWS ANCHOR)

[i-see-me-in-food]

Henry is fighting Cicero in the afterlife

[itseasierthanithought]

"To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour. [...]"

~William Blake - "Auguries of Innocence"

[motherfuckingmaneater]

Bellatrix what was being pregnant with the Dark Lord's child like?

An honour.

I wouldn't do it again though.

My daughter is a fucking nightmare.

[mumblelard]

the scrying mirror or winter wanes

yesterday was a difficult day and yesternight was a difficult night, but today already feels like something better. the last gasping grasp of the dark season, one hopes

this year i have decided to abandon the astronomical accounting of seasons and also happy last day of winter imaginary constructs

[sunshines-bee-farm]

This was a very self indulgent lazy one

Thank u to @agere-pngs for the images!!

[copperbasinoffingers]

again I appear once a year, but for their sake I rose from the dead and drew a lot of things with them 😭😭😭😭😭

[longitudinalspacecat]

So for the prompt for @thepromptfoundry's March Magic is Augury. For this prompt I thought to one of the Dnd campaigns I was on with my sorcerer tiefling I had named Cinabar Bunzz who I modeled off of magical girls based on her stats. Her move set had some time based magic and during the campaign they had a vision from the augury that wasn't too optimistic.

[khaire-traveler]

Hi! I know your focus is on Hellenic worship and this is really more for general research than anything else, but I was wondering if you knew anything about augury practice? Or just bird divining/symbolism in general, really. I've tried searching it myself already, but all I keep getting are broad definitions and summaries and rarely anything specific except for things like owls probably predicting the deaths of three Roman leaders, as well as the eating patterns of chickens. I'm also someone who loves to be organized, so I guess what I'm looking for is some sort of list for bird symbolism in accordance to the Ancient Romans, if one exists at all.

Hey, Nonny, thanks for the ask!

I honestly wasn't even sure what augury was until this ask, so I did a brief research session about it. Overall, detailed information on augury is hard to come by. A Harvard project about augury (very brief and not very descriptive) linked this website, and it seems to be somewhat of a good source on the history behind augury as well as some other important facets of it. I also found this one that defines augury pretty well and discusses the different types of it and such! I'm not sure how helpful these resources will be to you, however. Other than those, though, I cannot find many good sources online. There don't seem to be any lists of bird symbolism according to how the ancient Romans interpreted them.

As far some books you might be able to read, the best ones I can seem to find would be Augury is for the Birds by Marcus de Avibus Discit and Augury by Duke Johnson. Pretty sparse on augury-specific texts. You may want to check out more broad books about Roman religion, such as Religion of the Roman Empire by James B. Rives, Roman Religion: A Sourcebook by Valerie M. Warrior, and Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jörg Rüpke. The talk of augury may be present in these books, but I can't make any guarantees, as I haven't read them myself; there's just a chance you may find better information in them.

Someone who might know about this topic would be @evilios , but they're really the only Tumblr I know who talks a bit about ancient Rome, and they speak more on the gods, from what I've seen. @thoodleoo may know where to find information on augury, though. However, I'm not sure if they can help you or not. It's just a suggestion because they both seem like very knowledgeable people.

(Sorry for the tags, btw)

Hope this helped somewhat! I wish you luck and hope you have a wonderful day/night! ☺️🧡