Haruspicy

Haruspicy is one of the religions of Amin. The religion focuses on the practice of divination from the entrails of sacrificed animals to prescribe and advise, considering the divination practice to reveal the will of the gods. There is a belief of several gods held by followers of haruspicy but the specific gods worshipped varies from person to person. Initially it had a small following until a minority political party, the Centrist Neutral Haruspicy Party (CNH) helped promote it, leading to the religion gaining more followers over time.

Their sacred text is known as the Haruspicem Libro and can be downloaded here.

Political Movement
The religion of haruspicy had a small following and was largely unheard of before the CNH was established in 1964. The Centrist Neutral Haruspicy party's main political motivations were to spread the religion and create a theocratic state driven by the practice of haruspicy. Their policies included the encouragement of freedom of religion under law and also they wished to put funding into the agricultural industry.

After the leader of the party at the time Raza Kordaei went mad and killed farmers, for which he was soon arrested for, he killed himself by tearing out his own entrails with his bare hands and divined from his own disembowelled body as he died. This dealt a massive blow to the public's opinion of haruspicy until the new leader of the CNH, Habu Khanpur, renamed the party to the Reformed Radical Haruspicy Party and promoted a more peaceful approach, at least in public. However he was Machiavellian and while preaching peace he committed several acts of violence and worked with the secret society Cerberus to commit treason.

Succeeding Habu Khanur was the third leader, Alin Matar. He died the day he became party leader from an incident involving a tall building and a car.

The Daily Divination
The Daily Divination is a journal that the Haruspicy party posts every now and then to further their goals and help give a voice to practitioners of the religion. Sometimes they have scratchcards that allow winners to spend time behind the scenes at holy temples with the temple's Haruspex (priest).

Trivia
The player who came up with the haruspicy character idea did so as a joke, thinking that no-one would bother googling what 'haruspicy' actually was until it was taken seriously. In the beginning the joke went exactly as planned but as more players learned what it meant they embraced the joke and haruspicy has become something of a meme on the sim's out of character channels.