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Cry From the South of Our Houses: The Rigveda's Bird Oracles
The Rigveda has almost no divination in it: no liver reading, no oracle lots, no omen manual. Then, in three hymns tucked into the margins, a partridge is asked to speak and a pigeon is treated as a message from death.