Post #308926 by Formikahini on Fri, May 25, 2007 11:21 AM

On 2007-05-24 19:13, christiki295 wrote:
Is story line when Captain Jack Sparrow is held to be a God arriving from the ship a reference to the pre-contact Hawaiians interpreting Cpt. Cook to be Lono?l
I assume it's refering to the Spanish conquistadors being taken for gods. The Aztecs specifically thought the shiny armored Spaniards with feathers adorning their headdresses, riding these strange four-legged beasts (aka., horses), were Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent God, who was to one day return to his people. Actually, they thought the whole rider + horse was one beast. Pre-Aztecs and Mayans also have a feathered serpent in their iconography, too.

Many Mormons, I am told, believe that Quetzalcoatl was Jesus Christ - that before he ascended to Heaven for good, appeared to the natives of the future Americas, and promised to return one day.

You can listen to El Vez's "Quetzalcoatl" (to the tune of "Heartbreal Hotel"!) for a run down :wink:

Thus ends today's anthropology lesson,
F