{"id":3054,"date":"2010-01-01T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2010-01-01T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T19:23:51","slug":"oracles-and-omens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/01\/01\/oracles-and-omens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracles And Omens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong>Oracles and omens have been around since the dawn of time. It has been well documented.\u00a0Some, for instance, such as Plato, Pythia the famous Priestess of Apollo at Delphia, the Priest of Dodona, and Clarus and Notradomus. Pythagorus was a guru who founded a philosophy religion, gathered disciples and performed miracles and made prophecies. Apollomus Of Tyana who lived in the first century\u00a0A.D., performed many miracles and after he died he was\u00a0worshipped as a God. Socrates was another, who thanks to his familar, knew things before they happened.<\/div>\n<div>Pagan supernatural powers back then guided everything. The moving of the sun, where lightening hit, the path that birds flew, door banging, lights shining, you get the picture. Early Christians believed in Pagan miracles, although they often attributed them to Pagan demons. That did not stop some from searching out the seer\u00a0to beg for readings.<\/div>\n<div>Pagan prophecy miracles number in the tens of thousands. In 1692 the Christian church passed a law called the Canon Law that forbid the practice of divination. But that did not stop the seer. They just became more private in their ways of doing things. Of course some of them were out to make money, to scam. But there were people who had the gifts to see into the future. Back then fortune tellers were called Sybil. A Sybil was a person who spoke Gods words for him. A God would move Sybil to speak, someone would write it down and later the words would be consulted. In Rome, for instance, they kept them in Sybilline books. They were collected and carefully guarded.<\/div>\n<div>Not only are there Pagan oracles, but Christian and Jewish as well were given the gift. Scholars agree that the oracles existed and even flourished in ancient times, but they do tend to agree on some of the customs. Omens are related to divinatins, fortune telling, premonitions, apparitions and prophecies. Omens appear outside of human control. They are also associated with black cats, nightmares, lucky and unlucky days and breaking mirrors. Omens may be<\/div>\n<div>considered good or bad.\u00a0 Some forms of divination are astrology, augury ( the study of birds in flight), tarot cards, palm reading, geomancy (markings in the ground), Iching, fend shui, numerology, spirit boards, runes, and scrying.<\/div>\n<div>In future articles I will be presenting different types of omens and oracles. Explaining how they work or not. These are things that people believe that will either help or hinder a situation because of their own personal ideas and superstitions. One should be very careful when contacting a seer. Yes, some are very gifted in their areas, but there are also people in it who are not gifted and out to scam money. Research before you put your money down.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracles and omens have been around since the dawn of time. It has been well documented.\u00a0Some, for instance, such as Plato, Pythia the famous Priestess of Apollo at Delphia, the Priest of Dodona, and Clarus and Notradomus. Pythagorus was a guru who founded a philosophy religion, gathered disciples and performed miracles and made prophecies. Apollomus Of Tyana who lived in the first century\u00a0A.D., performed many miracles and after he died he was\u00a0worshipped as a God. Socrates was another, who thanks to his familar, knew things before they happened. Pagan supernatural powers back then guided everything. The moving of the sun, where lightening hit, the path that birds flew, door banging, lights shining, you get the picture. Early Christians believed in Pagan miracles, although they often attributed them to Pagan demons. That did not stop some from searching out the seer\u00a0to beg for readings. Pagan prophecy miracles number in the tens of thousands. In 1692 the Christian church passed a law called the Canon Law that forbid the practice of divination. But that did not stop the seer. They just became more private in their ways of doing things. Of course some of them were out to make money, to scam. But there were people who had the gifts to see into the future. Back then fortune tellers were called Sybil. A Sybil was a person who spoke Gods words for him. A God would move Sybil to speak, someone would write it down and later the words would be consulted. In Rome, for instance, they kept them in Sybilline books. They were collected and carefully guarded. Not only are there Pagan oracles, but Christian and Jewish as well were given the gift. Scholars agree that the oracles existed and even flourished in ancient times, but they do tend to agree on some of the customs. Omens are related to divinatins, fortune telling, premonitions, apparitions and prophecies. Omens appear outside of human control. They are also associated with black cats, nightmares, lucky and unlucky days and breaking mirrors. Omens may be considered good or bad.\u00a0 Some forms of divination are astrology, augury ( the study of birds in flight), tarot cards, palm reading, geomancy (markings in the ground), Iching, fend shui, numerology, spirit boards, runes, and scrying. In future articles I will be presenting different types of omens and oracles. Explaining how they work or not. These are things that people believe that will either help or hinder a situation because of their own personal ideas and superstitions. One should be very careful when contacting a seer. Yes, some are very gifted in their areas, but there are also people in it who are not gifted and out to scam money. Research before you put your money down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}