(this thread really doesn't belong anywhere else IMO)
We're discussing the word 'fulgurator' which, IMO, is an Aspect of Shargash :
Shargash Fulgurator
Others believe that it's a good word for divination via lightning bolts.
> > Hmf : Fulguration is certainly a cool word ; but it ought to mean to 'Throw
> > Lightning Bolts' IMO.
>
> Oh, indeed it does, but fulgurator also means, according to Lewis & Short, "A
> priest who interprets and propitiates lightning, a lightning-interpreter". They
> also, secondarily, put it as Fulguriator.
My Inner Pedant has no problems with 'fulguriator' ... ;-)
> For the verb form I would have chosen someting similar to your proposals, but
> the same dictionary has it as fulguratura, as in "Etrusci libri de
> fulguratura". Fulguration sounds like a good anglicism for that.
For 'fulguraturation / fulcraturation' ? ugh !
> We could of course go for the greek term, but Keraunoskopia is a bit more of a
> mouthful.
Keraunospection / Keryanospection / Keryanospect : no thanks !
> Another old favourite is of course aeromancy,
I think I might have been too harsh with my Inner Snob : 'fulcrimancer / filguromancer' is probably acceptable ...
Has anyone else read chapter XXV of Rabelais' Third Book ?
cheers,
Julian Lord
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