Post #227235 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 18, 2006 5:07 AM

BK, I hope I did not actually worry you with that little anecdote from Maori history, it was shared out of my fascination and love for the traditions of Tiki carving, but not to be taken serioulsy at all. They are curious, but I do not heed bad luck stories like that, be they about breaking olden taboos, or taking lava from Hawaii.

This, to clarify, has nothing to do with dis-respect for ancient attitudes, I simply feel that it is all a matter of intention. If you do something (anything) with a pure and positive intention and out of a genuine love for it, no god can punish you for it, if you smoke, drink, tatoo yourself or listen to Jimmy Buffet (the eternal sin).

That is also why I am not ashamed of my book even in front of Polynesian traditionalists, because it was done out of my genuine love for Tiki, old and new, and has done nothing but spread that love, and the culture of the Polynesian gods.