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South Pacific tribe that worshipped Prince Philip as living god prepares to hold day of mourning

Don't show me this message again✕ Villagers on the island of Tanna hold up treasured photos of Prince Philip (Richard Shears/Shutterstock) The South Pacific tribe that saw Prince Philip as a living god will likely turn to worship Prince Charles, a leading anthropologist has said. A group of villagers on the tiny island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago believe the Duke of Edinburgh had descended from their spiritual ancestors and worshipped him, praying that he would one day return to bring prosperity to the village. As news of his passing reaches the island, they will respond with dance...

Island of Tanna tribe that treated Prince Philip as a god now expected to worship Charles Liam James © Provided by The Independent The South Pacific tribe that saw Prince Philip as a living god will likely turn to worship Prince Charles, a leading anthropologist has said. A group of villagers on the tiny island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago believe the Duke of Edinburgh had descended from their spiritual ancestors and worshipped him, praying that he would one day return to bring prosperity to the village. As news of his passing reaches the island, they will respond wit...

Mourning tribe who idolised Prince Philip, name Prince Charles as successor Anthropologist Kirk Huffman says the Prince Philip Movement will continue with Prince Charles as the remote island tribe's new deity. The Kastom tribe of Tanna, one of the islands on Vanuatu in the South West Pacific, worshipped Prince Philip as a “mountain deity” in what has become known throughout the decades as the “Prince Philip Movement”. The Telegraph reported that villagers on the remote island responded to the 99-year-old Prince Philip’s death on Friday 9 April with ritual wailing and beverages, as ...

Islanders Who Worship Prince Philip as God Will Now Idolize Prince Charles Instead Newsweek 9 hrs ago Darragh Roche © Getty Images Sikor Natuan, the son of the local chief, holds a water damaged portrait of Britain's Prince Philip in a partially built monument to the British royal near the remote village of Yaohnanen on Tanna in Vanuatu on August 6, 2010. As the United Kingdom and the world mourns the death of Prince Philip, there is one community in the South Pacific that's expected to be deeply affected by the Duke of Edinburgh's passing. A tribe in the village of Yaohn...