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Pick ONE of the major Greek cults: Athena Polias; Demeter Eleusina; Apollo Pythios of Delphi; or Zeus Olympios.

**USING REFERENCES ONLY FROM –Mikalsons Ancient Greek Religion.** Step 2: Then take up the following challenge: Choose one thing that is neither a human nor a god, and describe the cultic practice from the perspective of that thing, granting it as much agency as you can imagine. If you like, you may even write in the voice of that thing. It could be a human-made object or artwork or building, or a biological element, or a natural place, or a cultural medium (like poetry or song or dance), or something else altogether. Why are we setting this challenge? One view of worship would see it simply as a relationship between a human and a god. This is not wrong, but it may not take into account the complex materiality of ancient Greek cults, and the way in which the Greeks understood their entire world to be saturated with, and implicated in, divine power. We want you to try to get inside of that embodied reality! Humans and gods were not the only things with force or agency in the world of ancient Greeks. Sometimes even things that might seem merely human, like song or a statue, might be thought of differently, as having a kind of force of their own, with humans merely serving as their instruments of realization. Your primary reference will be Mikalsons Ancient Greek Religion.