Another delightful digression for my World Civ students.

Jul 05, 2010 12:26

As you know from our framework of study in this course, we human beans have such interesting notions of how the human world and the divine world communicate.  I ask you now to sift back through your warm and fuzzy memories of this semester to the activity we did where each one of you was asked to select an interesting divination method and explain it to the class.

We spent an agreeable afternoon hearing all about myomancy, haruspicy, margaritomancy, and the ancient and dignified art of rumpology, which still makes me shake my head.

Thanks to recent events, though, it appears we can add cephalopodomancy to our list of techniques.  Witness the following:

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