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>>3535171I wonder if cargo cults existed during the very early ages of european colonization in the americas
like were there native americans who saw europeans and their technology and thought of them as gods/deities in their religion?
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>>3535176they already had their own gods, their own government, writing system, medicine etc. the technological differences between the aztecs (and others) compared to europeans weren't big enough for them to compare them to literal gods. also we would have known since both the spanish and aztec liked to record events. also both parties saw the other as humans since some native groups allied with the spanish to kill other native groups, implying that they recognized they were both humans.
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>>3535183The technology of the spanish at that time isn't even comparable to what they had in the 1940s. There's a massive difference between cannond and muskets and planes, satellites, gigantic ships, artillery, bombs etc.