Post #40437 by Trader Woody on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 5:13 PM

I wouldn't get too bogged down in thinking that a particular Tiki God 'meant' any of the words you mentioned. Polynesian religion was too diverse to lump a God into the emotive words you picked out. Tiki was hardly a pre-cursor to Care Bears and the like! You'll see Hawaiian Tiki statues described as being the 'money' Tiki and such-like, but it was a crude attempt to put a 20th century spin on something far more complex.

Trader Woody