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Divine InterĀ­vention

With hundreds of options, it sometimes ain't simple to figure out to whom you should address your prayers.

  1. When his wife's complexion began looking a bit sallow during labor, Hippocrates consulted his folio. "Amnia jaundice!" he diagnosed, before praying to _____ for a safe childbirth.
  2. When she needed help in a battle with the Gargareans, Hippolyta's first thought was to con a jar of Greek fire from Theseus, but she decided instead to pray to _____ to allow her fierce fighting women to rout the enemy.
  3. The members of Sophocles' acting troupe weren't geniuses, so they couldn't understand the tragic significance of his latest script. That's why he prayed to _____ to improve the skills of the performers.
  4. When his ornery mule left the grainfields for the back lawn, sat down, and refused to move, poor Geras Macdonaldos the farmer prayed to _____ for help in harvesting his crops.
  5. When Diogenes' lantern went out, he froze, petrified of the pitch blackness. "My legs! I can't move my legs!" he cried, before praying to _____ for assistance.
  6. When Ulysses' men spied pirates on the horizon, he froze, thinking they were all goners. A basinful of water splashed into his face by Telemachus snapped him out of it, though, and he began praying to _____ for protection from the brigands.
  7. By the time Glauce realized that the unfair bodice sent to her was poisoned, she was already feeling its effects, so she immediately prayed to _____ to provide an antidote.
  8. After Xanthippe threatened him with divorce, Socrates assembled Athens' most prominent legal team: Shroom, Nightshade & Hemlock, Attorneys-at-Law. But first he prayed to _____ that his attorneys would have the law on their side.
  9. Frail moonbeams lit the forest where Orpheus was sneaking up on a tree where he'd seen bees. As he prepared to extract the hive, he prayed to _____ that he would successfully build a working apiary.
  10. When his elderly father Anchises was nowhere to be found as Troy burned, Aeneas prayed to _____ to protect him until Aeneas could sweep the unhandy oaf atop his shoulders.
  11. While being nursed by the she-wolf, Romulus (somewhat anachronistically) prayed to _____ for a main metro area he could name after himself.
  12. When, at Croesus' bacchanal, a horde of field mice chased screaming revellers into fudge sculptures, into the fruit tray, and out the door, Croesus prayed to _____ to end the plague of rodents.
  13. Livia Drusilla set off on the road to Ostia, eager to see the splendor of the rich port. She made sure, though, to first pray to _____ for safe travel.
  14. When Julius Caesar couldn't sleep on the evening of March 14th, he first tried writing his thoughts on a pad, hymn singing, and even counting satyrs. Finally, though, he just prayed to _____ to take him off to dreamland.

Deities:

  • Achlys
  • Apollo
  • Aristaeus
  • Demeter
  • Dionysus
  • Erebos
  • Geras
  • Hera
  • Ioke
  • Mercury
  • Neptune
  • Nomos
  • Roma
  • Somnus

Prayers Received at (Nursia Standard Time, respectively):

Vespers, Laud, Lauds, Vigi, Laud, None, Prime, Prime, Non, Terce, Terce, Sext, Se, Vigi