Back in the mid '70s, around the time that the first Star Wars movie came out, there was a popular bumper sticker that read, "Jesus is my co-pilot." Now you may remember that the character Hans Solo (played by Harrison Ford) was captain of a space ship called the Millennium Falcon, and his co-pilot was a tall, hairy fellow named Chewy. In Spain and Mexico people named Jesus (and there are a lot of them) often go by the nickname Chuy (it's pronounced the same as the English adjective "chewy" ). I hypothesize that George Lucas, the producer and director of Star Wars, was aware of the bumper sticker and the Mexican nickname, and that he decided to poke fun at the bumper sticker-sporting Jesus freaks (a popular term in the '70s) by naming the Millennium Falcon's co-pilot "Chewy." I have no direct evidence that this is the case, but I support my hypothesis with two salient facts. 1. George Lucas grew up in California's San Juaquin Valley, and would have certainly come into contact with Mexican farm workers or even kids in his elementary, junior high, and high schools, who were named Jesus and went by Chuy. 2. Lucas brought in the famed expert on comparative mythology Joseph Campbell as a consultant for the designing of the Star Wars story line. Campbell is famous for, among other things, providing exquisite historical and mythological context indicating that many of the stories and characters in the Bible are borrowed from earlier religions, and the Jesus of Christianity is probably, to a large degree, a fabrication. Now I ask you, does my hypothesis seem reasonable? Can you provide any information that might shed light on this mystery?