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Sunday, June 7, 2026
2pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
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What will happen to us next? From the earliest beginnings of human civilization, people have searched for signs, patterns, and clues to address the last unanswerable question. Looking into the future has obsessed human beings since written records began. As soon as communities could conceive of higher powers, they tried to look into the future. Prophets and priests delivered divine messages. Shamans and seers channeled spirits and interpreted visions, portents, revelations, and signs.
Join writer and art historian Christopher Dell (The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic) for an online talk about his upcoming book Prophecies, revealing the long history of prediction and fortune telling in every human society—from ancient Egyptian oracles, Roman augurs, and Aztec omens to Japanese divination and the active magic of Norse seers. It traces the parallels in different traditions and cultures, exploring the signs and images found in antique documents, rare books, imaginative projections, and divinatory paraphernalia. Dell explores extraordinary oracles from ancient Greece and western Africa to Mesopotamia and the mountains of Tibet; omens, portents, and auspicious signs in indigenous societies in Asia; Zoroastrian priests of Iran and astrologers of China; dreams and visions from Australia to North America; and finally reckons with the many predictions of the end of the world, from ancient days to the present moment.
Thames & Hudson publishes Prophecies on May 26, 2026.
Christopher Dell holds a degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, London. He has written and edited many bestselling titles on art and visual culture, including Freemasonry, Mythology, Monsters, What Makes a Masterpiece? and The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic, all published by Thames & Hudson.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
2pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
What will happen to us next? From the earliest beginnings of human civilization, people have searched for signs, patterns, and clues to address the last unanswerable question. Looking into the future has obsessed human beings since written records began. As soon as communities could conceive of higher powers, they tried to look into the future. Prophets and priests delivered divine messages. Shamans and seers channeled spirits and interpreted visions, portents, revelations, and signs.
Join writer and art historian Christopher Dell (The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic) for an online talk about his upcoming book Prophecies, revealing the long history of prediction and fortune telling in every human society—from ancient Egyptian oracles, Roman augurs, and Aztec omens to Japanese divination and the active magic of Norse seers. It traces the parallels in different traditions and cultures, exploring the signs and images found in antique documents, rare books, imaginative projections, and divinatory paraphernalia. Dell explores extraordinary oracles from ancient Greece and western Africa to Mesopotamia and the mountains of Tibet; omens, portents, and auspicious signs in indigenous societies in Asia; Zoroastrian priests of Iran and astrologers of China; dreams and visions from Australia to North America; and finally reckons with the many predictions of the end of the world, from ancient days to the present moment.
Thames & Hudson publishes Prophecies on May 26, 2026.
Christopher Dell holds a degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, London. He has written and edited many bestselling titles on art and visual culture, including Freemasonry, Mythology, Monsters, What Makes a Masterpiece? and The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic, all published by Thames & Hudson.