Post #77219 by Geeky Tiki on Sat, Feb 21, 2004 11:00 AM

I gotta go with two answers.

1. Technically, Tiki was the first human so "He" created us. Hence the long standing religious thought from that area of the world.

2. For hobby purposes, I'd say the Tiki is a phenomenon of US military exposure to the South Pacific and then the melding of the "timeless tropical" with the exploding technology of the 40's into the 50's.