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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a plague upon cattle and disorder in the state’s affairs

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a threat to prosperity and dissent among the common people.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 22 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends women and the servile classes daring to commit murders.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 21 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends civil war.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 20 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends that the lower class people will be gloomy.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 19 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a long-lasting peace.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)