Fascination

Apr 27, 2014 23:03


Two cultural ... things that I am deeply fascinated by, are Voodoo and Cargo Cults ( Read more... )

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mimerki April 28 2014, 16:20:54 UTC
(1) I assume you've read the Chris Moore book, Island of the Sequined Love Nun?
(2) Dude, now I want to play a Cleric to the Great Cargo Gods in a D&D/other fantasy game. Perhaps with a side of deliberate misunderstanding of the main texts supporting the primary gods of the campaign setting, to whom the Great Cargo Gods are avatars or some such. (Probably with some bits stolen from Japanese crypto-Christians; specifically on the lines of "no, man, you people have changed the rites; *we* are doing it right.")

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apestyle April 28 2014, 16:26:28 UTC
I see a fantasy version starting as a Cargo Cult, and as the indigenous people realize that Not All Is Well With Their Masters, it changes into Voodou as a way to combat the Masters.

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centauress May 8 2014, 07:19:13 UTC
Tourism culture is basically Cargo Cult as well. Build it and they'll come. You hope.

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