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Cargo cult, a Rare card
Cargo cults are spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the early 20th century.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The first documented cargo cults were religious movements that foretold followers would imminently receive an abundance of food and goods brought by their ancestors.
- Cargo cults have a wide diversity of beliefs and practices, but typically include: charismatic prophet figures foretelling a coming cataclysm or utopia for followers, predictions by these prophets of the return of dead ancestors or other powerful beings bringing the cargo, the belief that ancestral spirits were responsible for the creation of the cargo, and the instruction by these prophets to…
- Use of the term has declined in anthropological scholarship on the basis that it bundles together too wide a diversity of movements and is too pejorative.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cargo cult article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cargo cult (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tim Ross, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
