One well-known sufferer, after pursuing many ritual courses of action, sadly confesses his confusion and frustration: I wish I knew that these things were pleasing to one’s god! What is proper to oneself is an offence to one’s god; What in one’s own heart seems despicable is proper to one’s god. Who knows the will of the gods in heaven? Who understands the plans of the underworld gods? Where have mortals learnt the way of a god?
