Good article but he left out the trickery. There were often hydralics, gears, and so forth so that lighting the pryre just outside the door of the temple would

Good article but he left out the trickery. There were often hydralics, gears, and so forth so that lighting the pryre just outside the door of the temple would cause "the God" to slowly open the temple doors. Dazzled the plebes. Some remnants of these mechanisms survives in other Greek temples.