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native ppl: these dudes are sickly, scurvied, and so pale they look like they're about to die, we have to give them food
europeans: they bring us offerings! they must think we're gods, probably
The white people as gods myth likely comes from Australia where pale people were thought of as ghosts and treated well and given things they'd need on their trip to the aboriginal afterlife of sorts.