The translation of the said the unsaid in Sikkanese ritual texts

intelligo ut credam (I understand in order to believe) (Pierre Abelard, Sic et Non). It is not necessary to come out and state everything so directly. A well-formed Narration says as much by what is left out of it as by what is put in (Capt. Van Hoek to the crew of Minerva riding at anchor in Manila Bay, May, 1700; Neal Stephenson, Th e Confusion, 2004: 703).