Divination | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:32 1 Categories
00:01:41 2 History
00:01:50 2.1 Antiquity
00:05:15 2.2 Middle Ages and Early Modern period
00:06:40 2.3 Mesoamerica
00:07:52 3 Contemporary folk religion
00:08:02 3.1 Asia
00:08:14 3.1.1 Japan
00:09:24 3.1.1.1 Personality types
00:11:48 3.1.1.2 Japanese tarot
00:13:57 3.1.2 Taiwan
00:16:13 3.2 Africa
00:17:11 4 See also



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Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god", related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency.

Divination can be seen as a systematic method with which to organize what appear to be disjointed, random facets of existence such that they provide insight into a problem at hand. If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. Particular divination methods vary by culture and religion.
Divination is dismissed by the scientific community and skeptics as being superstition. In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, "Alexander the false prophet", trained by "one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates", even though most Romans believed in prophetic dreams and charms.