Originally posted by Womble
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And I agree with Womble. A people's 'primitivism' is always exaggerated by the conquerors. People would have stronger suspicions, and they wouldn't go away, if they took on an existing figure. And it seems from the descriptions that peoples in the show have given, that they invade a planet through force and then establish themselves as a god of their own making. Whereas in that case Ra would have been just going along with the locals, and always double-covering his deception. He would have certainly manipulated aspects of their existing beliefs to his gain, but not to that extent, I think. It's much more effective to overwhelm them entirely and imprint a belief onto them in the aftermath of that-although I do agree that there would have been some taking and manipulating of what was originally there. Lovely folks, those Goa'uld
You do not have to imprint a large area. All you really need is to traumatize one city, take over, crack down and make it yours. Than you can spread the word from one centralized point of power. Which in someays makes sense in the Stargate Universe w/ other Goa'uld coming in as the farther away from the centralized power center one gets the weaker one's hold on them. Can't remembr what the model is actually based on, but it seems I did learn something in Anthro 101 *giggles*
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