Stoicheomancy
Stoicheomancy
A method of divination that is practiced by opening the works of Homer or Virgil and reading as an oracular statement the first verse that presents itself. It is regarded as a form of rhapsodomancy.
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Blank Verse , Blank verse Kalevala , Kalevala (from Kaleva, Finland). Finn. nat. epic, transmitted orally over several centuries, on which Sibelius based several works. In 1835 Elias Lön… Divine , divine
di·vine1 / diˈvīn/ • adj. (-vin·er , -vin·est ) 1. of, from, or like God or a god: heroes with divine powers | paintings of shipwrecks being p… Divination , Man, by nature, longs to know what the future holds for him, either out of inherent curiosity or in order to anticipate the dangers that await him. T… Divinity , Divinity
When people refer to something as divine, they employ one of the most basic concepts found in any religion. This generalized idea points to… Free Verse , free verse Verse with no regular metre and no apparent form, relying primarily on cadence. The unsystematized rhythm is close to that of prose. Early…
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