there may be magic pagan power in what is inconvenient.
what is difficult, the challenge, the struggle, the work,
considered attractive spirit food, sacrifice, bait.
Promoting attention getting and deal making as a group activity and reason for being functions for social cohesion, not sensitivity to existing relationships to unseen or unknown spirits.
Claiming to understand is wrong, claiming to control a delusion,claiming special powers problematic.
The regularly repeated ritual referencing of relations returns realigns and rekindles.
Something
Somewhere
Outside of the awareness of the ritual participants.
vanity and arrogance , boastful certainty of person or process
are not conductive complementary collaborative creative consciousness.