The Ifuago are mountain dwellers native to the Phillipines. Their pantheon contains many interesting classes of gods, one of which is known as the "paybackables". They, just like people, are easily motivated by bribery. A prayer to the paybackables is useless without a sacrifice as payment. The Ifuago believe large portions of their culture are the result of direct trade between their ancestors and these deities.
I now quote from "The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft", by Stein/Stein:
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...Barton lists 168 "paybackables". An example is the deities that are involved with the activity of weaving. they include "Separator of Seeds from Cotton", "Separator of Defective, Lumped Fibers", "Fluffer", "Spinner", "Draw out of Thread on Spindle Bob", "Black Dyer", "Red Dyer", Yellow Dyer", "Winder into Ball", "weaver's First Helper Who Receives the Ball and Passes It Back and Forth", "Second Helper Who Passes Ball Around the End STick", "Scrutinizer (who sees that the job of setting up the loom is done right)"...
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