Are There Other Forms of Divination That You Can Think of Off the Top of Your Head?

Bibliomancy is divination by books where you pick a book randomly and open it up to a random page, and then there's something about the page that you fall on that may be significant in that moment for some reason. Anything that can have like a natural phenomena that has a random or chance, like a lot mentor characteristic to it, you can use for divination. And so initially, like, celestial omens started being one of those things. It was a late form of divination that developed, but eventually, it seems like it started becoming more and more important in Mesopotamia.

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