Both Reddit's search engine and using Google to search site:reddit.com have failed me repeatedly, so I'm asking here.

There was an AskHistorians post I remember distinctly about how serious ancient belief in Gods was. Specifically, it asked about a ceremony where a woman was expected to go into a room in a temple alone and then a God would manifest himself to her, and how the women would react when no one showed up. I think the god in question was Babylonian or Sumerian, but I can't remember.

In any case, there was a really fantastic answer about how the ancients understood the divine, basically saying "How do you know a god didn't manifest itself to her?", and how some ancients regarded the whole world as divinely inspired and understood the presence of divinities around them even if there wasn't a physical manifestation you could see and touch.

As I said, searching has been no use, and I've been looking for this answer on-and-off for a couple months now. Does anyone else remember the post or have a link to the answer?

Thank you!

Cheers, Ganesha