Discernment in Viscera

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I reach inside
and look beneath you, I’m
no longer satisfied with
Secrets from the beasts

Their portents are vague,
Their meaning hidden from my gaze
But the worms within you
glisten - listen!

Unlike the tricks of the Haruspex,
or the timid augur
who fumble in the dark,
lost and ignorant,

I scry inner labyrinths.
For it is only the viscera of man
that can illumine the contours
of what is to come.

One unclouded corner
of the hereafter
is not enough —
It’s not enough!

All men will die
Why then must I
seek
to understand the future?

In the end,
it is my
own guts that spill
and whisper

***

ca. CE 550

Exact origin unknown. Probably recorded near Auvergne in the middle years of the 6th century, but describes events from earlier [ca. CE 200 - 420] involving a Celtic vate evidently familiar with the Roman haruspex, but who adapted that practice to human innards. If not for the ritualized context of the violence, this would stand as an early attestation of serial murder.

In some recordings, the vate is executed by local tribunal using the same method with which he dispatched his victims. Most versions, including the one above, end in a kind of mystical suicide. In either case, the vate uncovers the long sought after truth in his own entrails.

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