LEFTIRIGHT SYMBOLISM IN MESOPOTAMIAN DIVINATION By Ann Guinan

https://www.academia.edu/37884045/LEFTIRIGHT_SYMBOLISM_IN_MESOPOTAMIAN_DIVINATION?rhid=38417475141&swp=rr-rw-wc-3395923&nav_from=72ab622e-55ae-4556-a837-f30bb2dadc35 The world of Mesopotamian divination is populated by calves with noses on their buttocks, snake-headed babies, soil that oozes blood, livers covered with networks of tissues, misplaced membranes, and odd spots; lizards falling into beer, pigs blundering into houses, strange flashes of light.~and queer noises. We confront a vast, baffling array of real and surreal and we acknowledge the indisputable place of divination in Mesopotamian intellectual endeavour. In order for our enonnous corpus of omens to" make a contribution in proportion to its size we need to trace a path through this puzzling world and retrieve what we can of the underlying speculative process. The challenge, in short, is to find systematic interconnections between the protases of omens and their apodoses. ...