Prophecy

Oedipus (, ; , ) was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.

thumb|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut print from the Apocalypse of [[Albrecht Dürer (1497–1498)]] Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and Indian), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism, and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults. In the context of mysticism, the term refers metaphorically to t

In Greek mythology and religion, Themis (; ) is the goddess and personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom. She is one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia and Uranus, and the second wife of Zeus. She is associated with oracles and prophecies, including the Oracle of Delphi.

thumb|upright=1.2|Consulting the Oracle by [[John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy]]

thumb|Illumination from Scivias|Liber Scivias, showing [[Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision, dictating to her scribe and sketching on a wax tablet]]

thumb|upright=1.35|16th century woodcut of a Divination|soothsayer delivering a prophecy to a king, deriving it from stars, fishes, and noises from the mountains

earth-dragon of Delphi

thumb|Examples of omens from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493): natural phenomena and unnatural births. thumb|Manuscript of the mid-nineteenth century, possibly of S'gaw Karen people|Sgaw Karen origin, shows various appearances in the sun, the moon, clouds, etc., and indicates the primarily bad omens these appearances foretell. Explanations in English were added to this manuscript by a nineteenth-century American missionary.

Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.

person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes such claims for evil ends

right|thumb|300px|The amabie. Woodblock printing in Japan|Woodblock print, late Edo period, dated [[Kōka 3 (1846).]] is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with a bird beak-like mouth and three legs or tail-fins, who allegedly emerges from the sea, prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic, and instructed people to make copies of its likeness to defend against illness.

Ancient Egyptian literary text

predicted dates of the end of the world

Semantic title used by certain historical monarchs

prophecy reported in the Jewish or Christian Bible

literary work by Nostradamus

thumb|Etruscan wall painting from Tomba degli Auguri (c. 530 BC) showing two augurs

Vision in chapter 37 of the Book of Ezekiel

prophecy written after the author already had information about the events being "foretold", so as to appear that the prophecy had taken place before the event, when in fact it was written after the events supposedly predicted

A visionary, defined broadly, is one who can envision the future. For some groups, visioning can involve the supernatural.

Chinese prophecy book from the 7th-century Tang dynasty

Adolf Hitler's speech on 30 January 1939

ancient Egyptian prophetic text

art that purports to transcend the physical world

Japanese spirit

1200 poem by Berchán

12th-century Byzantine prophecy

work by Geoffrey of Monmouth about the prophecies of Merlin

three springs in Velilla del Río Carrión, Spain

collection of prophecies

Poem purported to be written by Liu Bowen during the Ming dynasty

Salvific religious figure in Taoism

Oomoto religious text dictated by Nao Deguchi

Hellenistic Egyptian prophetic text

Antimsemitic canard falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin