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90:2.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_man medicine men] put great [[trust]] in signs and omens, such as, "When you hear the sound of a rustling in the tops of the mulberry trees, then shall you bestir yourself."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Book_of_Samuel#Chapter_.5] Very early in the [[history]] of the [[race]] the [[shamans]] turned their [[attention]] to the [[stars]]. Primitive [[astrology]] was a world-wide [[belief]] and [[practice]]; [[dream]] [[interpreting]] also became widespread. All this was soon followed by the [[appearance]] of those temperamental shamanesses who professed to be able to [[communicate]] with the spirits of the [[dead]].

90:2.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_man medicine men] put great [[trust]] in signs and omens, such as, "When you hear the sound of a rustling in the tops of the mulberry trees, then shall you bestir yourself."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Book_of_Samuel#Chapter_.5] Very early in the [[history]] of the [[race]] the [[shamans]] turned their [[attention]] to the [[stars]]. Primitive [[astrology]] was a world-wide [[belief]] and [[practice]]; [[dream]] [[interpreting]] also became widespread. All this was soon followed by the [[appearance]] of those temperamental shamanesses who professed to be able to [[communicate]] with the spirits of the [[dead]].

90:2.6 Though of [[ancient]] [[origin]], the rain makers, or [[weather]] [[shamans]], have persisted right on down through the ages. A severe drought meant [[death]] to the early [[Farmer|agriculturists]; [[weather]] [[control]] was the object of much [[ancient]] [[magic]]. Civilized man still makes the [[weather]] the common topic of [[conversation]]. The olden peoples all believed in the [[power]] of the [[shaman]] as a rain maker, but it was customary to kill him when he failed, unless he could offer a plausible excuse to account for the failure.

90:2.6 Though of [[ancient]] [[origin]], the rain makers, or [[weather]] [[shamans]], have persisted right on down through the ages. A severe drought meant [[death]] to the early [[Farmer|agriculturists]]; [[weather]] [[control]] was the object of much [[ancient]] [[magic]]. Civilized man still makes the [[weather]] the common topic of [[conversation]]. The olden peoples all believed in the [[power]] of the [[shaman]] as a rain maker, but it was customary to kill him when he failed, unless he could offer a plausible excuse to account for the failure.

90:2.7 Again and again did the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor#Lineages_and_epochs Caesars] banish the [[astrologers]], but they invariably returned because of the popular [[belief]] in their [[powers]]. They could not be driven out, and even in the sixteenth century after Christ the directors of Occidental [[church]] and [[state]] were the patrons of [[astrology]]. Thousands of supposedly [[intelligent]] people still believe that one may be born under the [[domination]] of a [[luck]]y or an unlucky star; that the [[juxtaposition]] of the heavenly bodies determines the outcome of various [[terrestrial]] [[adventures]]. Fortunetellers are still patronized by the credulous.

90:2.7 Again and again did the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor#Lineages_and_epochs Caesars] banish the [[astrologers]], but they invariably returned because of the popular [[belief]] in their [[powers]]. They could not be driven out, and even in the sixteenth century after Christ the directors of Occidental [[church]] and [[state]] were the patrons of [[astrology]]. Thousands of supposedly [[intelligent]] people still believe that one may be born under the [[domination]] of a [[luck]]y or an unlucky star; that the [[juxtaposition]] of the heavenly bodies determines the outcome of various [[terrestrial]] [[adventures]]. Fortunetellers are still patronized by the credulous.