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human
[Avatar] Jake Sully’s Avatar gets surrounded by wood sprites which is seen as a sign from Eywa and thus leads him to becoming their leader. Knowing the spirituality of the NaVi, couldn’t the humans have just engineered this attraction?
gpt
The issue was that, before Jake, the native Na'Vi typically did not communicate with either humans or Avatars.  Human-controlled Avatars were either known to be humans, or interpreted as being Na'Vi from a different tribe, and still rejected.

Because of this, the humans didn't even know very basic facts about the Na'vi culture.  Jake had to be the one to tell them that the giant tree was a holy symbol to the Na'Vi.  That's like not knowing Christians worship Jesus; or not knowing the Pope lives in the Vatican.

Since the humans lack even incredibly basic knowledge about the Na'vi religion, it's unlikely they had any idea about the wood sprites.