Was this spectacle a massive money-making confidence trick, or did the priests really believe they were communicating with the gods? "There"s no question that the Ploutonion in Hierapolis was big business," said Yeomans, "but it"s hard to be sure if the priests really understood what was going on. Some may well have attributed their survival to the favour of the divine, while others may have regarded it as a natural – if enigmatic – phenomenon that could be observed and, at least to some extent, predicted."

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