You also see this a lot in translations of undeciphered scripts. Often there's a period of speculative translations that really make no sense, but are justified with "it's just religion, of course it's esoteric".

Example in hieroglyphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeliscus_Pamphilius?wprov=sfl...

Example in an undeciphered script: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo#F...