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TT Travellin' Tiki Tiki Socialite Joined: Apr 05, 2004 Posts: 227	TT Travellin' Tiki Posted posted on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 6:06 PM Ooh! Lots of good discussion... Again I want to write a lot more, but gotta get back to work... Palapala's response brings up a really good point. There's "tiki" and then there's "tiki"... in other words, there are sacred art-forms with amazing traditions, which have been created by Polynesian, Micronesian & Melanesian peoples for centuries (called "tiki") and then there are "Pop-Polynesian" art-forms of the twentieth-century American tradition--what we do--(also called "tiki".) In my post, I'm really talking about the latter, so anywhere I write "tiki" you can pretty much substitute "pop-polynesian tiki." Maybe we should talk about "Tiki" and "tiki"? If so, I guess Tiki is spiritual, and tiki, while not inherently spiritual, certainly can be!

Ooh! Lots of good discussion... Again I want to write a lot more, but gotta get back to work...

Palapala's response brings up a really good point. There's "tiki" and then there's "tiki"... in other words, there are sacred art-forms with amazing traditions, which have been created by Polynesian, Micronesian & Melanesian peoples for centuries (called "tiki") and then there are "Pop-Polynesian" art-forms of the twentieth-century American tradition--what we do--(also called "tiki".)

In my post, I'm really talking about the latter, so anywhere I write "tiki" you can pretty much substitute "pop-polynesian tiki." Maybe we should talk about "Tiki" and "tiki"? If so, I guess Tiki is spiritual, and tiki, while not inherently spiritual, certainly can be!

Post #464359 by Travellin' Tiki on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 6:06 PM