For the organisa- tion of such festivals, the daily activities of a population had to be interrupted or even stopped, and people from different areas, tribes, and strata had to gather in a single location. This in turn required a sufficient transportation system, and in particular, safe roads that could only be secured by a powerful ruling elite. Furthermore, to confirm the exceptional nature of the event, it had to be attrac- tive so that a vast number of people would come. Finally, the people attending the event had to be fed, and in many cases they would bring food, goods, and other valuable items with them. These events made use of the networks as follows. They reached out into every corner of the empire, like a spider in a web and thereby gathering vast numbers of the population to one location and a particular time. At these gathering the elite could ‘educate’ their audience, inform them about general norms and rules, but the audience could also experi- ence the other-worldy quality of the ruler or ruling elite. The event ensured that the norms and rules, where not relevant within the festival, but reached out into the territory being ruled. The religious events was, therefore, based on a struc- tural model of a small-world network. Small-world does in this case not so much refer on the number of links or connections, but on the density created and the strong ties being temporality formed (on this dynamic, see Watts 1999).