DISTORTED MILKY WAY MYTHS
CARGO CULTS
From Wikipedia:
"The history of cargo cults seems to
have begun before historical records in these countries of Melanesia and
advances from materials that arrive with foreigners by canoe to sailing
vessels, freighters, and airplanes. An indigenous tradition of exchange
of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the
ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and prophesies
that they would return at some time laden with these objects of
wealth for the members of the tribes".
And:
"Cargo cults, thus focus on efforts to
overcome what they perceive as the undue influence of the others
attracting the goods, by conducting rituals imitating behavior they have
observed among the holders of the desired wealth and presuming that
their deities and ancestors will, at last, recognize their own people
and send the cargo to them instead".
- The underlined sentences describes a
Myth connected to the Myth of Creation and how everything benefits of
it's gifts in order to support the basics of Life.
MYTH OF
CREATION AND THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
The Milky Way, it's Color and it's Contours on both the Northern and
Southern Hemisphere, is very close connected to the World Myths of
Creation. Before reading this page,
maybe it's a good idea to take a look at
Milky
Way Chapter and get an idea of the origin of the Milky Way Myths.
THE
SPANISH CONQUEST OF THE AZTECS
The Sahugan natives of the Aztec empire described
eight bad omens that were believed to have occurred
10 years prior to the arrival of the Spanish from
the Gulf of Mexico. The eight omens included:
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A strange appearance in the eastern sky,
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fire consuming the temple of Huitzilopochtli,
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a lightning bolt destroying the straw temple of
Xiuhtecuhtli,
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the appearance of streaking fire across the sky,
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the “boiling,” and later flooding, of a lake
nearby Tenochtitlan,
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women weeping for night upon night,
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the capturing of an unknown creature with a
fishing net,
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and the sightings of strange monsters having two
heads and only one body throughout the city.
"The emperor Montezuma was said to
have consulted fortunetellers to determine the causes of these
omens; but they were unable to provide an exact explanation until
after the arrival of the Spaniards".
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But even then, the Aztecs got it all wrong! At the time the
Conquistadors arrived, the Aztec priests apparently had forgot the
original mythological meaning of both "The Serpent" and the "Great
White Man", which regarding "the white man" legend was very
fatal. The Aztecs confused their Mythological story with the actual
meeting with just ordinary white-skinned humans.
NATIVE LEGENDS ABOUT "WHITE BEINGS"
Cargo Cults
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
John Frum Cult
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
Prince Philip Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-388901/Is-Prince-Philip-god.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6734469.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0608/p20s01-woap.html
"MEET THE
NATIVES"
The charming,
lovely and very thoughtful Documentary Programme, "Meet the
Natives", also revealed a worshipping of a actual living "white
skinned human being". There seems to be a mix-up between the Tanna
Creation Myth and a historical colonial meeting with a white man,
who seemingly let the Tanna Ni-Vanuatu
people to mix a specific element of their Mythological
story of Creation with the white-skinned Prince Philip.
"For centuries, perhaps millennia, villagers had believed in an ancient
story about the son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to
look for a powerful woman to marry".
The
Milky Way God and Goddess
"They believed that unlike them, this spirit had pale skin".
The Greatest God in Heaven
How did they make you react? I was
deeply touched . . .
When
coming to England, the 5 Tanna Natives was mentally and spiritually very deep and very
natural in their frankly comments on "the strange modern
civilisation". What a refreshing way to look at the modern
civilisation!
All the best
to the happy and harmonic Tanna People!
Tanna, South
Pacific Ocean, Archipelago
Vanuatuhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanna_(island)
South Pacific Island Photos:http://www.galenfrysinger.com/easter_island.htm
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