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Most of the cargo cults disappeared during the post-war decades, but the John Frum Movement lives on in Tanna. Cult members worship Frum, a messiah with changeable characteristics. To some ...
By Daisey's account they are the last surviving practitioners of a cargo cult, so named because its adherents believed that through worship they could attain the material goods of the missionaries ...
The Tom Navy cargo cult is similar to John Frum in that it ... where followers gathered in worship every Friday. He said: ‘They pretty much have their own village at the base of the volcano.
And although almost all the cargo cults have disappeared over the decades, the John Frum movement has endured, based on the worship of an American god no sober man has ever seen. Many Americans ...
Daisey took his journey to the South Pacific island of Tanna because he was fascinated by the people there who practice a related form of worship: the cargo cult. Cargo cults began in the South ...
Uniforms and medals are worn to encourage John Frum to return They were awestruck by the army's cargo of tanks, weapons, refrigerators, food and medicine. John Frum day is held annually on 15 February ...