
Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
The Role of Firmicus in Predicting the Death of People
You can cast from it. I mean, you get quite weird things, but you can use it as a, you can actually cast horoscopes from using firm cos this am book. There's an article by Lyn Thorne-Dike looking at the kind of outcomes that firmicus predicts and using them as a sort of source for social history. It's really good. And she talks in part about how when firmus talks about different ways in which people die in these predictions, drowning is disproportionately represented. You know, why is that? She looks at some of these things. And I think it's fascinating.
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