Divination or fortune-telling through observation of the south wind or southern atmospheric conditions.
From Latin auster (south wind) + -mancy (divination from Greek manteia). This ancient divination practice appears in classical texts where natural phenomena were interpreted as spiritual signs.
Ancient seers believed the south wind carried messages from the gods—it's a reminder that before meteorology, people read the sky as sacred text, and sometimes their pattern-recognition was eerily accurate.
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