Yaohnanen
| Yaohnanen Ionhanen |
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| Coordinates | 19 ° 33 ′ S , 169 ° 20 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Vanuatu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | VU | ||
Yaohnanen (also: Ionhanen ) is a village on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu . It is located in the south-east, about 6 km from the main town Lenakel .
history
The place became famous because some of the residents are supporters of the Prince Philip movement , which Prince Philip worships as a deity. In the late 1950s or early 1960s, starting with the John Frum Movement, a movement developed that focused on the British Prince Consort. The Yaohnans, who live in southern Tanna, believe that Prince Philip is actually the brother of John Frum. According to their myths, the son of the mountain spirit once left Tanna to marry a powerful woman on the other side of the sea. After contacts with the British colonial rulers, the Yaohnans came to the conclusion that this woman must be Elizabeth II, which is why they saw in Prince Philip the long-awaited spirit. This belief was reinforced in 1974 when the royal couple visited Vanuatu. Jack Naiva, the chief of the approximately 400 members of the Yaohnanen tribe, was one of the locals who greeted the royal yacht Britannia in dugouts and saw Prince Philip in his white naval uniform.
In 1978 the Resident Commissioner , the UK's highest representative in the New Hebrides Condominium , informed Prince Philip of the cult's existence and conveyed a request from the Yaohnans to send them a photo of the prince. Prince Philip accepted the request and sent a signed photograph and several clay pipes as gifts. As thanks the supporters of the Prince Philip Movement sent their God a traditional weapon, a Nal Nal - lobe , which is used for pig hunting. Prince Philip thanked him again in 1980 for this gift with a photograph of the gun in his hands. This photograph was made solely for the movement's supporters and was never officially published by Buckingham Palace . Another photo was sent to the Yaohnans in 2000.
The inhabitants were also featured in various television series on Spanish television ( Perdidos en la Tribu , Lost in the Tribe) and Portuguese television ( Perdidos na Tribo ), in which Spanish / Portuguese families lived with the "savages" for a certain period of time and learned their customs .
gallery
Residents of Yaohnanen (Alpi and Nakou aka JJ) show the photos of Prince Philip that they received on the occasion of a visit to Windsor in 2007.
Two residents of Yaohnanen.
Women weaving and looking after children.
Women cooking.
Children playing a traditional game.
literature
- Joël Bonnemaison: The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1994. ISBN 0-8248-1525-4
Web links
- Yam dance at Yaohnanen - amateur photos of a folk dance in Yaohnanen
- Heir to the tribe: South Pacific tribe who worship the Duke of Edinburgh want to meet Prince William - 2009 Daily Mail article , with a photo of the residents and their photos of Prince Philip
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Brian J. Bresniha and Keith Woodward, ed.Tufala Gavman - Reminiscences from the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides , Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, 2002: p. 498. (interview with Andrew Stuart, former British Resident Commissioner in the New-Hebrides)
- ↑ a b Joël Bonnemaison: Les gens et les lieux - Histoire et géosymboles d'une société enracinée: Tanna. , Editions de l'ORSTOM, Paris 1997, pp. 418-419
- ↑ Patricial Siméoni: Atlas du Vanuatou. Editions Géo-Consulte, Port-Vila 2009, map 91.
- ↑ According to the cultural geographer Joël Bonnemaison, the Duke of Edinburgh is even identical to John Frum, see The Tree and the Canoe , pp. 245f.
- ↑ Jane Alexander: The Body, Mind, Spirit Miscellany: The Ultimate Collection of Fascinations, Facts, Truths, and Insights . Duncan Baird Publishers, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84483-837-0 , p. 31.
- ↑ a b Richard Shears: Is Prince Philip a god? In: Daily Mail , June 3, 2006 (accessed March 25, 2010).