Post #380544 by christiki295 on Thu, May 15, 2008 3:08 PM

On 2008-05-07 08:53, nature boy wrote:

On 2008-05-07 07:20, Cammo wrote:
Go ahead and argue the details all you want, but -

It's ironic and very insightful that this site is dedicated to a native religion, but we're only allowed to post ethnocentric upper middle class Western views of it.

Of course Tiki is and was a religion. But any discussion of this purely from the native's religious viewpoint is literally forbidden on TC!

By limiting the discussion to entertaining aspects of a tourists-eye view of world of Tiki, we're forced to make fun of it. It's in fact a rule here. And its shameful.

I would love to hear a native's viewpoint! Any natives out there? I am not, so I am not qualified to such an opinion. I am trying to keep my facts straight from a historical point of view, not religious. I do have a Samoan friend and I remember years ago him explaining to me that Tiki is a white man's creation and not part of his culture. So, that is one native's opinion.

[ Edited by: nature boy 2008-05-07 08:54 ]

If anything Tiki has perpetuated the pre-contact Tiki gods by the prevelance of the "Ku" representations.