Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance
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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance is by Morris Jastrow, jr. The volume is dedicated to Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University, as a mark of esteem and admiration. The analysis names three chief methods of divination in Babylonia and Assyria: hepatoscopy, astrology and birth-omens.
The text says the observation of signs observed in young animals and in infants at the time of birth constitutes a third division of Babylonian-Assyrian divination, quite equal in prominence to Hepatoscopy and Astrology. The text says that Valerius Maximus includes in his list of prodigia birth-omens recorded among the Greeks, such as a mare giving birth to a hare at the time that Xerxes was planning his invasion of Greece, which was regarded as an omen of the coming event.
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- Morris Jastrow
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