Assertion: insect | /r/HasAspect | supernatural powers
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text: The name mantis, which means “diviner,” was given to this insect by the ancient Greeks because they believed that it had supernatural powers.
text: Several ancient civilizations did consider the insect to have supernatural powers; for the Greeks, it had the ability to show lost travelers the way home; in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead the "bird-fly" is a minor god that leads the souls of the dead to the underworld; in a list of 9th-century BC Nineveh grasshoppers (buru), the mantis is named necromancer (buru-enmeli) and soothsayer (buru-enmeli-ashaga).