Invocation

From the latin verb invocare “to call on, invoke, to give” Definition from wiki
 * Invocation ** : The act of calling upon a deity or spirit for aid, protection or inspiration.

Examples from text: Chubu and Sheemish. In the short story Chubu and Sheemish, the priests that worshipped the idols Chubu and Sheemish always offered them honey, fat, and spices. In the end of the story the archeologist who found Chubu says “And there is something helpless about Chu-bu with his fat hands stuck up in the air that sometimes I am moved out of compassion to bow down to him and pray, saying, “O Chu-bu, thou that made everything, help thy servant.” Example from the text: Orpheus. In the Tale of Orpheus, his wife Eurydice is killed from a poisonous snake bite. Orpheus ventures to the realm of death to try and ask the God of death to release her. Saddened by Orpheus’s singing voice, the God of death grants him his wish, but on the condition that he must not look back to her until they are out of his realm. Orpheus agrees to this, but when he is almost out a gust of wind causes him to look back and make sure Eurydice is still there. When he does this she is taken again to the realm of the dead.

(J.M.)