Birth of a Cargo Cult

If you are unfamiliar with Cargo Cults take a look here for an intro

I'm going to focus on the Prince_Philip_Movement as it's a straightforward example of a how a prophecy created a Religious Cult.

"According to ancient Yaohnanen tales, the son of a mountain spirit travelled over the seas to a distant land. There, he married a powerful woman and in time would return to them. He was sometimes said to be a brother to John Frum."

"The people of the Yaohnanen area believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being. They had seen the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by the colonial officials and concluded that her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son referred to in their legends."

The myth is the seed already planted in the minds of the people that would grow into a belief system. This myth was also a prophecy and Prince Philip became the proof.

"It is unclear just when this belief came about, but it was probably some time in the 1950s or 1960s. It was strengthened by the royal couple's official visit to Vanuatu in 1974, when a few villagers had the opportunity to actually see Prince Philip from a distance. The Prince was not then aware of the sect, but it was brought to his attention several years later by John Champion, the British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.[2]"

The prophecy coming true through this coincidence with Prince Philip gave the followers an expectation for a better world to come and having all their needs met with free cargo from white people. The followers who had an animist worldview in which religion was a 'technology', through which men gained good harvests and maintained good social relationships, didn't see a difference between Religion and Government. The Prince's Government-Religion was clearly so advanced that it would provide for them.

A prophetical myth given credence through coincidence created a perfect storm for the people to develop a narrative fitting their confirmation bias to want free cargo, culminating into a Cargo Cult which still exists today.

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