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Yikes! Don't understand = magic?

Perhaps of myself, I should have used a term such as 'a marvel'.

You don't get say  the 'magic' of say a person seeing person seeing an airplane when there is no such thing in your own culture? As a child I was apparently terrified the first time I saw a movie; thought it was real and that the theatre was on fire. I was about 3.No TV here at that time.

A great example are the Cargo cults of Melanesia. One of 'em worships prince Philip.

--These things came from the sky and had all kinds of wonderful things inside.  So, some tribes built 'airstrips' and 'control towers' to lure the magical beings.


A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the Second World War.

Isolated and pre-industrial island cultures that were lacking technology found soldiers and supplies arriving in large numbers, often by airdrop. The soldiers would trade with the islanders. After the war, the soldiers departed. Cargo cults arose, attempting to imitate the behaviors of the soldiers, thinking that this would cause the soldiers and their cargo to return. Some cult behaviors involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.

Cargo cult - Wikipedia

Coke bottle from the sky gods that only causes pain and disharmony?