A significant shift in funerary ideology would be reflective of wider trends in Egyptian society and, if so, could leave 'space' for the individual's 'search for divinity'. In certain periods, however, the formal expression of religious devotion becomes a unique window to inner religious sentiments and reactions, specifically from the Amarna period, the most significant upheaval of religious thought in Egyptian history prior to the advent of Christianity. A text left by a wab-priest of Amun in a tomb 'in a relatively hidden spot' highlights a sense of loss and bereavement and alludes to a form of expressive language of mourning and personal faith 'coined in the Amarna period'. Response to affliction may also lead to a desire to discover its cause and avert it, which 'in an overarching supernatural context' often involves divination in the first instance, and subsequent appeals to the gods, the dead and recourse to magic.