Haruspex
In the religion of Ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina) the inspection of the entrails (exta), hence also extispicy (extispicium) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. The reading of omens specifically from the liver is also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).
The Roman concept is directly derived from Etruscan religion, as one of the three branches of the disciplina Etrusca. Haruspicy as practiced by the Romans and Etruscans has direct precedents in the religions of the Ancient Near East since at least the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000 BC) and apparently reached Italy via Anatolian (Hittite, Luwian) transmission.
The Latin terms haruspex, haruspicina are from an archaic word haru "entrails, intestines" (cognate with hernia "protruding viscera", and hira "empty gut"; PIE *ǵʰer-) and from the root spec- "to watch, observe". The Greek ἡπατοσκοπία hēpatoskōpia is from hēpar "liver" and skop- "to examine".
Haruspex (beetle)
Haruspex is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing these species:
References
Podcasts:
Haruspex
ALBUMS
- Extremist Records Compilation, Volume 1 released:
Extremist Records Compilation, Volume 1
- Are You Pornophoric / Tasty Hemorrhoidal Tissue / Delicious Gory Fun
- World Without Myself / Reliant Struggle
- Seas of Excrement
- Feast of Souls
- Fetal Scabs / Tampered Flesh
- Train of Thought
- A Unity
- Corrupting Morality
- Burping Blood
- Choking
- Subjugation of the Will
- Gone
- Immortalize / Guts of Christ / Power of Darkness
- Gathered in Ashes
- Maggot Spawn
- Mucus Blast / Feast on the Fecal Worm / Caress of the Mutilated Genitalia
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by Mars Volta
Haruspex
by: Mars VoltaDo you recall my name?
Beyond the anthills
Of the dawning
Of this plague
Do you?
Do you?
Oh, yeah
River, down, down now
Built-up, fell down