It’s been one of the problems of societies throughout the word that someone who is not responsible for what happens takes one in the ass, or in some cases, the cranium. Apparently people stopped buying their partiicular line of BS.
blam posted that info back in 2005. you also comment (but your comment at the time is a bit different. as well you include blam’s post on your list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355266/posts
Yup. Many of these nobles/priests gained their power by controlling the weather through propitiating the gods.
If the weather gets bad enough they get blamed for it. It appears something fairly similar to a revolt of the proles happened at Cahokia in central US.
Also quite possibly at Chaco Canyon and in the Maya country.