The practice of divination using mirrors was called Catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means “mirror”, or “reflection”; [emphasis added]
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The practice of divination using mirrors was called Catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means “mirror”, or “reflection”; [emphasis added]
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Antes (402) German:[…]Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally ‘flower’, with reference to the Greek vocabulary word anthos ‘flower’.
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