From this came the verb tonalpoa, to count or estimate the signs, that is, to cast the horoscope of a person; and tonalpouhque, the diviners whose business it was to practice this art.
The tlahuipuchtin, “those who work with smoke,” were probably diviners who foretold the future from the forms taken by smoke in rising in the air.
For after many true prophecies uttered by diviners and augurs, dogs were seen to recoil from howling wolves, and the birds of night constantly uttered querulous and mournful cries; and lurid sunrises made the mornings dark.
The diviners have to wear their hair long, like Samson, and, if it falls off or is cut short, their power is supposed to leave them.
I once saw one of thesediviners at work, discovering the sickness which had laid prostrate a strong man.
If then the greater number acquit the man, the sentence is that the first diviners shall themselves be put to death.
And this of it--the Ghost-people are diviners, they can read the future and see the hearts of men; there are no diviners like them.
In the doctors who dwell far away, and the council of the Diviners he had no belief.
Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his dreams: so they came and stood before the king.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream: 29:9.
And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.
For there are many things, concerning the development of which even wise men betake themselves to diviners and oracles.
But Octavius was persuaded by Chaldæans[137] and certain diviners and interpreters of the Sibylline books to stay in Rome by the assurance that all would turn out well.
Like most men of his time Guido was a believer in astrology, and is said on this occasion to have acted on the counsel of Guido Bonatti, mentioned among the diviners in the Fourth Bolgia (Inf.
The Etruscans, too, the professional diviners of Rome, cultivated the science.
Bid the wise men and the diviners sacrifice, and consult the bones of the slain, that I may know what will be the event of to-morrow.
As they came near, however, Attila dismounted from his horse; and the diviners approaching with less reverence than the rest of his people displayed towards him, the elder of the party addressed him boldly.
In this country of India they are much addicted to soothsayers and diviners, especially on this coast of India, which is named the country of Malabar, and they call these diviners canayates.
We often ascertain the future, he says, in dreams, when our bodies are lying still and peaceful: when we are in no convulsive ecstasy such as diviners use.
These are just the things which Medicine Men, Mediums and classical Diviners have always pretended to provoke and produce by certain arts or rites.
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.
Originally diviners from the flight of birds, but the area of their divinatory functions was gradually extended.
Whether diviners believed or did not believe in their science, the result was bad.
Therefore, according to custom, this morning the soldiers were assembled at dawn to be doctored and that the diviners might search out the omens of the war.
So the diviners searched, and she who was chosen among them ate the medicine and sank into the witch sleep here before us all.
Diviners by a dish into which water was poured and little waxen images made to float.
But the characteristics of the prophet are set in strong contrast to those of the diviners and magicians, and lift the order high above all the filth and folly of these others.
And for this reason it is customary to appointdiviners or interpreters as discerners of the oracles of the gods.
As the Birraarks learn songs and dance-music from the Mrarts, so the Zulu Inyanga or diviners learn magical couplets from the Itongo or spirits.
When he has obtained from the diviners all their medicines and information as to the mode of using the isitundu (a magical vessel), it is said that he often orders them to be killed.
They appear to have no regular class of priests, and supernatural power is owned by the chiefs and the king, and by diviners and sorcerers, who conduct the sacrifices.
The political power of the diviners is very great, as may be observed from the fact that a hereditary chief needs their consecration to make him a chief de jure.
They are noble fellows, and, although we do not agree with them, we may use them as diviners who will indicate to us the right track.
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