Arkuwar

You are Mursili II, Great King of the Hittite Empire. The year is 1320 BCE (or thereabouts). Your people have been devastated by a plague. Your only hope is to perform the most common type of Hittite prayer: the arkuwar, or "legal case".

Cover art contains a photo of the Plague Prayer of Mursili, from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, taken by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, CC-BY-SA.