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Stephen Colbert and Mesopotamian Divination

August 8, 2017May 2, 2014

Stephen Colbert – American Hero and Prophet of Shamash. As Ann K. Guinan explains, many forms of divination were especially common in ancient Mesopotamia. The rationale behind ancient divination was the belief that the gods had encoded their will or the fate of the world in signs found in everyday objects or occurrences, and so by … Read more

Tags divination, extispicy, humor, Mesopotamia, Stephen Colbert 2 Comments

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