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A special magistrate, the cechase, looked after the cecha or rath, sacred things.

Every man, however, had his religious responsibilities, which were expressed in an alumnathe or slecaches, a sacred society.

No public event was conducted without the netsvis, the haruspex, or his female equivalent, the nethsra, who would read the bumps on the liver of a properly sacrificed sheep.

We have a model of a liver made of bronze, whose religious significance is still a matter of heated debate, marked into sections which perhaps are meant to explain what a bump in that region would mean.

Divination through haruspicy is a tradition originating from the Fertile Crescent.