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Niyazov:
--- Quote from: Splint on May 09, 2012, 04:47:25 pm ---Ok, so I was wrong. Pardon my lack of knowlege on something I hadn't looked up more than once (And I skimmed at that.)
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There may be some cases where people genuinely confused other people for divinities, but it is usually associated with highly isolated people and extraordinary coincidences that made the conclusion unavoidable. James Cook's 1st voyage to Hawaii is cited as this; although it's difficult to say whether it is all true or not, there is some evidence that suggests that when Cook arrived at Hawaii, he was mistaken as a divine avatar because he arrived during the god's festival in a manner that matched sacred traditions. However he quickly dispelled this impression once he had made landfall and started acting like a jerk; when he returned a few weeks later they stabbed him to death on the beach.
There is of course a rich tradition of charlatans deliberately pretending to be gods or possessed of divine powers for any number of reasons.
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