Howard Zinn

 https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/

Effective hoaxes use prior implanted worldviews

Whereas the promoters of frauds, fakes, and scams devise them so that they will withstand the highest degree of scrutiny customary in the affair, hoaxers are confident, justifiably or not, that their representations will receive no scrutiny at all. They have such confidence because their representations belong to a world of notions fundamental to the victims' views of reality, but whose truth and importance they accept without argument or evidence, and so never question

http://web.archive.org/web/20220530222104/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax

Speaking Statutes and Preterism

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Revelation 13:15 KJV

http://web.archive.org/web/20111122173744/biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation 13&version=KJV

 consulting statues through which a priest apparently spoke

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion

Practices

Oracles

http://web.archive.org/web/20220617082230/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion

The ancient festival has been survived by the present-day feast of Sheikh Yūsuf al-Haggāg, an Islamic holy man whose boat is carried around Luxor in celebration of his life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opet_Festival

http://web.archive.org/web/20220524113604/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opet_Festival