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Hatty
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So Hermes sacred animal Hare.

Hare is supposed by linguists to be 'from German'. Hare = Herr?

Footprints tell the hunter the whole story on earth.


This is real history......

Heirs follow, or used to, in their fathers' footsteps. The idea of keeping things within the family is still profoundly annoying, to biographers and researchers.
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A cargo cult is a belief system among members of a relatively undeveloped society in which adherents practice superstitious rituals hoping to bring modern goods supplied by a more technologically advanced society. These cults, millenarian in nature, were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with advanced Western cultures. The name derives from the belief which began among Melanesians in the late 19th and early 20th century that various ritualistic acts such as the building of an airplane runway will result in the appearance of material wealth, particularly highly desirable Western goods (i.e., "cargo"), via Western airplanes.[1][2]


I aint going to get too much support on this but this is really a mirror of the modern approach to the Dark Ages.

Ie modern collections reflect a spiritual need occurring in a developed society to collect cargo from a lost dark age, and then display it, with the idea of then rediscovering more and more treasure.
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Mick Harper
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You're definitely on to something. Is there a distinction though to be drawn between priests and laity? We assume from our lofty western anthropological vantage point that everyone in the cargo cult is a True Believer but this may not be the case. Would a Cargo Cult priest have told an anthropologist that it's all just hokum to keep their flock happy? I wouldn't tell someone who's going to publish as soon as he got home.

We have often drawn the parallel between medieval attitudes to relics and modern attitudes to historical artefacts except that our academics and curators actually believe in the hooky gear whereas (surely?) there must have been a few in the medieval Church who knew they were fakes on account of someone having to order them, keeping the Holy Chrism topped up and what have you. Unless there was, as we are finding out there is, a hermetic seal between Church/museum and the Relic Industry.

I suppose the psychological angle you are driving at stems from everyone having a vested interest in believing but it is a good spot that a great chasm is required, whether between primitive Melanesia and advanced West or between advanced West and the Dark Age. As we all know there was once a Golden Age if only we could just reach out...
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