Beware, more tiki going mainstream! - General Tiki

V Vaïnui Member Nouméa NEW CALEDONIA Joined: May 16, 2002 Posts: 44	V Vaïnui Posted posted on Sat, Feb 8, 2003 11:07 PM Tikis going mainstream! yeah! this is a great revenge for polynesian culture in general. The Missionnaies (representing the 2 mainstream religions at the time) tried to snuff out all the Tikis and their effigies during their missions from God in Polynesia. You know, because of all that idolatry and so on, they destroyed tons of beautiful and unique works of art. Happily for us all at TC, they missed out a few and so tiki has survived and is ..... well, now, going mainstream. Even if our nowadays plastic tikis from Woolsworth look a bit crappy and that everyone's got one, that's OK. Just think, if it wasn't for some slack friars we all might have missed out on something culturally cool and ended up collecting Barbie dolls and Tinky toys. Boy are we lucky & long live Tiki.

Tikis going mainstream! yeah! this is a great revenge for polynesian culture in general. The Missionnaies (representing the 2 mainstream religions at the time) tried to snuff out all the Tikis and their effigies during their missions from God in Polynesia. You know, because of all that idolatry and so on, they destroyed tons of beautiful and unique works of art. Happily for us all at TC, they missed out a few and so tiki has survived and is ..... well, now, going mainstream. Even if our nowadays plastic tikis from Woolsworth look a bit crappy and that everyone's got one, that's OK. Just think, if it wasn't for some slack friars we all might have missed out on something culturally cool and ended up collecting
Barbie dolls and Tinky toys.

Boy are we lucky & long live Tiki.

Post #22453 by Vaïnui on Sat, Feb 8, 2003 11:07 PM