Divination

Rome, sacred ground for nearly 3,000 years, and counting

Published by Kathimerini on Thu, 05/04/2023 - 02:20

According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 BC, when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a circular perimeter in the hills above the Tiber River. Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager - unhallowed open territory.

The Oracle shrine of Delphi

Published by Protothema on Tue, 11/14/2017 - 21:15

Divination was considered as one of the most important kinds of art (technai—arts, skills, crafts) among the ancient Greeks, second only to medicine, given along with fire to humans by Prometheus (Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 484-99).

Time capsule from 1995 discovered in an Australian bathroom – with eerie predictions that came true

Published by Protothema on Fri, 07/21/2017 - 20:16

Nostradamus has got nothing on this. 

22-years ago Greg Wilkinson probably didn’t consider himself to be one of the great seers of our lifetime, but he can certainly call himself that now.

Back in 1995, he wrote a letter, speculating on what might happen in the near future and buried it in a wall of a house in Sydney, Australia.

Nostradamus’s predictions about Trump, Greece, world’s end

Published by Protothema on Fri, 11/11/2016 - 15:38

According to conspiracy theories that have been circulating among social media since the conclusion of the US presidential elections, and as reported by the British press, Nostradamus, the 16th century French apothecary and reputed seer, predicted both ‘audacious’ Trump’s victory from 4 centuries ago, how it ties in with Greece’s current woes, and the end of the world.