Nature is not an immense mechanism: Nature is not made only of chemical-physical reactions and phenomena. These observations can describe Nature as a "container": they are unable to describe what Nature essentially contains. This untangible "content" may show different names, expressions, manifestations: in the Traditional Roman Religion this "content" is expressed by Gods/Goddesses or, better, some of them, in particular those described by Natural Theology.
Gods/Goddesses send some "signs" or "signals" which of course are not their sole expression tools.
In the past the Augures (a "board" completely indpendent from the Pontifices) were called to manage the ius augurale which was secret: it has completely got lost. They had doctrines, rites, cerimonies directed to the consultation and interpretation of divine signs. This means that signs' interpretation (both as augurium and auspicium - a distinction very difficult to made) cannot be used to foresee.
Usually the augur address his prayer (the term "prayer" is not completely correct and appropriate) to Jupiter/Juno (as "Signs' Sovereigns") asking if it is fas (or "if the mystic foundation exists for...) a given site, a given action, a given decision, etc...
The wording is as follows: "Iuppiter/Juno si fas est ... send me this sign"
The procedure (according to T. Livius) is based on the activation of a communication with a God/Goddess through a lituus (a curved wooden stick with no knobs)
It is important to note and evidence that all this can have a value, a sense and a meaning only if one can achieve a complete and deep change in the way he/her perceive and see the world and the universe around us. It is essential to build, day after day, a serene and clear awareness about what we cannot otherwise "see". Without this awareness, this sort of quiet energy, all this, as in the case of rites in any other religion, are only folkcloristic expressions, a game, a nonsense fiction, a simulation, a parody deprived of any meaning and sense.
How to get the augurium
The site where to observe sings (auspicia impetrativa) must be a sacred place limited by the lituus or a templum. It must be quadrangular, oriented (except for Vesta who requires circular sites), with or without visible borders: it must have only one entrance. The site must be freed by impure or hostile forces which can eventually occupy it.
The augur must have his/her face southward oriented (Pars Antica - the origin of anything) and his/her back northward oriented (Pars Postica); head must be veiled and he/she must hold the lituus in the right hand. The augur, invoking the God/Goddess, limit four main areas in the sky (regiones) drawing a line from east to west: in addition to the Pars Antica and the Pars Postica, he/she has the Dextrae Partes (on the right) and the Levae Partes (on the left).
He/she will focus his/her view on a reference point on the front. The augur passes his/her lituus from the right to the left hand asking: "Jupiter/Juno if fas is that ... make evident and precise signs appear between the limits I have assigned and set". After that the augur list the signs he/she wants to see or perceive.
(to be continued)
Gods/Goddesses send some "signs" or "signals" which of course are not their sole expression tools.
In the past the Augures (a "board" completely indpendent from the Pontifices) were called to manage the ius augurale which was secret: it has completely got lost. They had doctrines, rites, cerimonies directed to the consultation and interpretation of divine signs. This means that signs' interpretation (both as augurium and auspicium - a distinction very difficult to made) cannot be used to foresee.
Usually the augur address his prayer (the term "prayer" is not completely correct and appropriate) to Jupiter/Juno (as "Signs' Sovereigns") asking if it is fas (or "if the mystic foundation exists for...) a given site, a given action, a given decision, etc...
The wording is as follows: "Iuppiter/Juno si fas est ... send me this sign"
The procedure (according to T. Livius) is based on the activation of a communication with a God/Goddess through a lituus (a curved wooden stick with no knobs)
It is important to note and evidence that all this can have a value, a sense and a meaning only if one can achieve a complete and deep change in the way he/her perceive and see the world and the universe around us. It is essential to build, day after day, a serene and clear awareness about what we cannot otherwise "see". Without this awareness, this sort of quiet energy, all this, as in the case of rites in any other religion, are only folkcloristic expressions, a game, a nonsense fiction, a simulation, a parody deprived of any meaning and sense.
How to get the augurium
The site where to observe sings (auspicia impetrativa) must be a sacred place limited by the lituus or a templum. It must be quadrangular, oriented (except for Vesta who requires circular sites), with or without visible borders: it must have only one entrance. The site must be freed by impure or hostile forces which can eventually occupy it.
The augur must have his/her face southward oriented (Pars Antica - the origin of anything) and his/her back northward oriented (Pars Postica); head must be veiled and he/she must hold the lituus in the right hand. The augur, invoking the God/Goddess, limit four main areas in the sky (regiones) drawing a line from east to west: in addition to the Pars Antica and the Pars Postica, he/she has the Dextrae Partes (on the right) and the Levae Partes (on the left).
He/she will focus his/her view on a reference point on the front. The augur passes his/her lituus from the right to the left hand asking: "Jupiter/Juno if fas is that ... make evident and precise signs appear between the limits I have assigned and set". After that the augur list the signs he/she wants to see or perceive.
(to be continued)
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