Дeuteronomy 18:10-12 or Leviticus 19:26 can be interpreted as categorically forbidding divination. The Oracle of Amun at the Siwa Oasis was made famous when Alexander the Great visited it after conquering Egypt from Persia in 332 BC. Russian peasant girls using chickens for divination 19th-century lubok. The satirist, Lucian, devoted a witty essay to Alexander the false prophet. In antiquity it was attacked by philosophers such as the Academic skeptic Cicero in De Divinatione and the Pyrrhonist Sextus Empiricus in Against the Astrologers. In the modern era, it has been dismissed by the scientific community and skeptics as being superstition experiments do not support the idea that divination techniques can actually predict the future more reliably or precisely than would be possible without it. Particular divination methods vary by culture and religion.Дivination has long been criticized. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. Display on divination, featuring a cross-cultural range of items, in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England.Дivination can be seen as a systematic method with which to organize what appear to be disjointed, random facets of existence such that they provide insight into a problem at hand.

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