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Libanomancy (also
known as
livanomancy and knissomancy) is a
divination primarily through observing and
interpreting burning incense smoke, but which...
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interpreted by
several methods—e.g.,
liver divination, lecanomancy, and
libanomancy. Hepatoscopy—observing
irregularities and
abnormalities of the entrails...
- /ˈkæpnoʊmænsi/: by
smoke (Gr**** kapnos, 'smoke' + manteía, 'prophecy')
libanomancy /laɪˈbænoʊmænsi/: by
smoke or ash from
incense (Gr**** libanos, 'frankincense'...
- When
capnomancy involves the
smoke from incense, then it is
called libanomancy. The word
capnomancy comes from two Gr**** words: καπνός (kapnós), meaning...
- however,
extended into
other fields with, for example, the old
Babylonian libanomancy texts,
concerning interpreting portents from
incense smoke,
being one...
- was paid to
intersections of
these elements, or
where they dead-ended.
Libanomancy—Divination by
studying the
burning of incense, or the
patterns made by...
