One thing that I get from a lot of people with American Gods is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong. . . And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.