Comment by dejj
3 days ago
I was curious, and you’re right. It would be Cargo Culting then, if we believed the ritual actually had an effect on Pratchett in the afterlife.
3 days ago
I was curious, and you’re right. It would be Cargo Culting then, if we believed the ritual actually had an effect on Pratchett in the afterlife.
Surely not. That's just most religions.
Cargo cults are quite specifically believing that the incantations have an effect in this world.
"The first documented cargo cults were religious movements that foretold followers would imminently receive an abundance of (often Western) food and goods (the "cargo") brought by their ancestors."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult