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| The
John Frum Myth |
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| „Mountain
Ararat is in America. They have everything – education,
tools, all the things we need. Tanna is very far away from that
mountain."* |
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John
Frum first appeared on the island Tanna in 1937, arriving with
a plane. He put his feet on the land of the Tannese, spoke American
wisdom and soon was considered as a god, a phenomenon generally
described as „cargo cult". Frum ordered people to
return to their tradition, to throw away their European money,
to kill their cattle, to abandon their houses and gardens, promising
to soon provide new houses, new money, food and animals.
His followers still await his return hoping he will lead the
people out of bondage.* |
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| *
Edward Rice, John Frum He Come, a Polemical Work about a Black
Tragedy (1974) in Amok Journal, 1995 |
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."The
Great Plane Race" (1998)
.collection
Prof. Wilhelm Schürmann
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