Smithsonian Cargo Cult article - now on-line! - General Tiki

M mbonga Member La Mesa, California Joined: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 556	M mbonga Posted posted on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 8:31 PM Interesting. I took a geography course about the Pacific islands and their cultures, and our teacher told us the likely start of the cargo cult religion was a Navy man by the name of John Frum during World War 2, which makes sense due to associations of great wealth (all the Navy ships and their supplies) with the appearance of a certain man who provided that explanation. But that article says it started much earlier, in the 1930s. That changes the whole nature of that cult, in my mind, if the article's account is true. As for kava, an oceanography teacher in that same school told us about his trip to Fiji and how the natives seemed to get pretty happy after drinking kava, so he tried it, but he said they used to spit in it due to the chemical properties of saliva enhancing the effect. That was before anybody knew about AIDS. How the world has changed. [ Edited by: mbonga 2006-01-31 20:32 ]

Interesting. I took a geography course about the Pacific islands and their cultures, and our teacher told us the likely start of the cargo cult religion was a Navy man by the name of John Frum during World War 2, which makes sense due to associations of great wealth (all the Navy ships and their supplies) with the appearance of a certain man who provided that explanation. But that article says it started much earlier, in the 1930s. That changes the whole nature of that cult, in my mind, if the article's account is true.

As for kava, an oceanography teacher in that same school told us about his trip to Fiji and how the natives seemed to get pretty happy after drinking kava, so he tried it, but he said they used to spit in it due to the chemical properties of saliva enhancing the effect. That was before anybody knew about AIDS. How the world has changed.

[ Edited by: mbonga 2006-01-31 20:32 ]

Post #211885 by mbonga on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 8:31 PM