Post #394925 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jul 18, 2008 1:53 PM

Very interesting observation! You mean instead of being the tribe of the Big Ears, we are the cult of the Big Heads? Well luckily, I can come up with a logical reason for that. It is because we all strive to BE Tikis! :D :

One of the earmarks of authentic Polynesian Tiki sculpture is that the head was almost always portrayed as larger in proportion to the body than it is in actual human beings. The reason for this was that the head is viewed as the container of mana, and Tiki figures were meant to be containers for ancestor mana. This larger-than-life head size is also the reason why Tikis seemed to resemble caricatures or cartoons to the Western eye, which were traditionally rendered with larger heads. This inherent "cartoony-ness" lent itself to Tikis being more easily assimilated by American mid-century artists with that sensibility.

On the other hand, if we follow the theory of Devolution, the pre-historic eating of brains made the human brain swell and grow larger than intended, smiting man with the loss of natural sensory perception and constantly having him teeter on the brink of insanity! :o