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How a South Pacific island came to worship Prince Philip as their 'true messiah'


How a South Pacific island came to worship Prince Philip as their true messiah
There will be few places where the Duke s loss will be felt as keenly as the island of Tanna where they prayed to him every day
18 April 2021 • 6:00am
The people of Tanna have worshipped the Duke since the Sixties
Credit:  Richard Shears / Rex Features
The Duke of Edinburgh may have garnered numerous illustrious titles over his decades of service, but to a tribe on the South Pacific island of Tanna he was only ever known – and worshipped – as “The Big Man”.
For most of his public life, Prince Philip has been regarded as a living deity by a tribe living on the tiny volcanic island which is part of the Vanuatu archipelago. According to local legend, the pale-skinned son of a mountain god once ventured far away across the ocean to marry a powerful woman. In the Sixties, when Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony known as the New Hebrides, it is believed that tribesmen wou ....

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