Abstract
Abstract The extent and the ways in which it is legitimate to use literary texts as evidence for ancient beliefs is a problem that needs discussing. As far as religious practices are concerned, the texts must clearly not be treated as though they were documents containing straightforward information which can be simply extracted. For the ancient authors manipulated ritual stuff according to their aims and writing modes, which determined their selections, and thus the ways in which the material out of which the texts were created was shaped. This material sometimes included cultic knowledge functioning as a point of reference, as a given, the manipulations of which were registered by the contemporary audience (in which I am including the notion ‘readers’), who shared in that knowledge, as manipulation, distortion, polarization, or reversal.
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