Lono & Shag References in Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest

Is story line when Captain Jack Sparrow is held to be a God arriving from the ship a reference to the pre-contact Hawaiians interpreting Cpt. Cook to be Lono?

Is the scene of the dart shooting guy a reference to the Shag painting "The Yanomami Hunter?"

http://www.shagmart.com/pages/pryano.html

Are the "reed shooters" limited to the Amazon and/or Papa New Guinea?

Or maybe the ones in the Caribbean just didn't get enough press?

On 2007-05-24 19:13, christiki295 wrote:
Is story line when Captain Jack Sparrow is held to be a God arriving from the ship a reference to the pre-contact Hawaiians interpreting Cpt. Cook to be Lono?l
I assume it's refering to the Spanish conquistadors being taken for gods. The Aztecs specifically thought the shiny armored Spaniards with feathers adorning their headdresses, riding these strange four-legged beasts (aka., horses), were Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent God, who was to one day return to his people. Actually, they thought the whole rider + horse was one beast. Pre-Aztecs and Mayans also have a feathered serpent in their iconography, too.

Many Mormons, I am told, believe that Quetzalcoatl was Jesus Christ - that before he ascended to Heaven for good, appeared to the natives of the future Americas, and promised to return one day.

You can listen to El Vez's "Quetzalcoatl" (to the tune of "Heartbreal Hotel"!) for a run down :wink:

Thus ends today's anthropology lesson,
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I wish all anthropology lessons would end with a reference to El Vez.

The pre-Aztecs of Central Mex/Mexico City area would be the Mixtecs (pronounced Meeshteks), who were the locals. They hired the Aztecs (nomadic warriors) to be their mercenaries, and within a hundred years the Aztecs took over the aristocracy, their reign however, was short lived, enter Spaniards...

The natives of the Antilles/Carribean were variously the Caribe, Arawak, and Taino.

On 2007-05-25 15:02, arriano wrote:
I wish all anthropology lessons would end with a reference to El Vez.
Check out the last required reading on each "Required Reading" list:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~history/courses/archive/seminars/summer/399a.htm

Also a required reading in this course:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/courses/archive/spring01/410510wood.htm

I think college has gotten cooler than in my day.....
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