In the dance, a letter keeps appearing and disappearing, by human and divine agency, resisting all attempts to get rid of it or grab it.

A miracle is an event not ascribable to human power or the laws of nature and consequently attributed to a supernatural, especially divine, agency.

Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of an animal to appease or maintain favour with a divine agency.

In the former, divine agency gives rise to the situation of the latter.

The same divine agencies who caused disease or harm also had the power to avert it, and so might be placated in advance.

It thus forms the basis for establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy.

But does the crucial significance of this understanding of divine agency require that we think of God as a person?

Can we understand divine agency without reducing God to a person like ourselves?

Even given the often nomadic nature of kobolds, divine agency is often evoked to explain how kobolds spread so far.

By some claimed form of divine illumination, prayer or revelation from a divine agency.