diviners
Those who prophesy
Diviners are people who practice divination—attempting to gain insight into questions or future events through supernatural or intuitive means.
The term covers those who read tarot cards, interpret omens, or use tools like dowsing rods to locate water or buried objects.
The village diviners were consulted before any major decision.
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
- augurOne who reads omens
clairvoyant · fortune-teller · soothsayer · prognosticator · visionary · medium · palmist · chiromancer
Divination card set
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- pendulumsSuspended swinging weights
- rodsThin cylindrical shafts
casting lots · runes · astrology · numerology · omens · portents · crystal ball · tea leaves
Announcing future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foresight · revelation · omen · harbinger · foreseeing · vision · prophecy · insight
Mediation between worlds
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
sacred · trance · invocation · communion · insight · guidance · wisdom · intermediary
Thin cylindrical shafts
- pendulumsSuspended swinging weights
- witchingPerforming magical rites
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
- locatingDetermining position of
forked stick · sensitivity · detection · springs · aquifers · ley lines · minerals · seekers
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
augur · clairvoyant · fortune-teller · soothsayer · prognosticator · visionary · medium · palmist · chiromancer · prophesier
tarot
Divination card set
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- pendulumsSuspended swinging weights
rods · casting lots · runes · astrology · numerology · omens · portents · crystal ball · tea leaves · palm reading
foretelling
Announcing future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
premonition · foresight · revelation · omen · harbinger · foreseeing · vision · prophecy · insight · foreknowledge
shamanism
Mediation between worlds
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
ritual · sacred · trance · invocation · communion · insight · guidance · wisdom · intermediary · supernatural
rods
Thin cylindrical shafts
- pendulumsSuspended swinging weights
- witchingPerforming magical rites
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
locating · forked stick · sensitivity · detection · springs · aquifers · ley lines · minerals · seekers · prospecting
- Ifasacred verses, verses, signs
- Ancient ChinaShang dynasty, Han dynasty, Confucius, Warring States period, oracle bones
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, folk healer, herbal medicine
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- Greek OraclesDelphi, oracle of Delphi, oracles, prophecies, seer
divinersscientists
Systematic knowledge seekers
empiricists · researchers · rationalists · analysts · experimenters
divinerssurveyors
Property line determiners
scientists · meteorologists · astronomers · observers · geologists
divinersscientists
Systematic knowledge seekers
academics · scholars · technicians · engineers · physicians
- divine healingRestoration through holy power
- divine revelationsSacred truths from deity
- divine interventionGodly action in affairs
- divine glorySacred transcendent brilliance
- divine commandmentsLaws from a deity
- divine planDeity's intended course