Yes, I didn’t mention it because Jacko seems to operate in an alternate wacko universe where he can fuel his Peter Pan complex by building a ranch called Neverland to invite kids for (at best) questionable activities, change his skin color and all of his features by deconstructive surgery, and do the moonwalk.

Randomizer, you are on an interesting track re beliefs, traditions etc., Since this thread has gone cold, we will take up your notions on another thread one of these days.

Remember the infamous Michael Jackson dangling his baby from the balcony of a hotel building?

Also, despite my joking in #71, have people heard of this custom in some community or village? This is really news to me!

“How can you reduce centuries and centuries of observations, discourses, practices and collective knowledge exhibited by millions of individuals in the sub-continent into neat, currently-dated, mutually-exclusive packets of fear vs awareness, understanding vs ignorance, etc?”

Our ancestors may have known a tremendous amount about the environment, and the creatures in it, I agree, but it cannot be an explanation for the reason it gained religious importance, which is what we are specifically disputing here. Historically, religious figures have always been the result of the ‘mysterious’ and the ‘unknown’. For instance, the Sun (Ra) for the Egyptians, Thor for the Vikings, and hundred other gods for the Greeks, rain gods, animal gods, the list goes on… Once these elements (rain, fire, water, planets ) are explained by Science, they lose their ‘mystical’ significance and worship of it declines.

To be concise, my point is: that which is thoroughly understood, is very rarely worshipped.

The case of India and the Cobra might be a rare exception to this general trait of religious origins, and I cannot claim to disprove that. In the meanwhile, we can only agree to disagree.

If the hood is a-rockin’, don’t come clickin’.