Meeting the Natives

natalie_1982 | 14:07 Wed 03rd Oct 2007 | Film, Media & TV

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This question may have been asked and if it has then sorry, I must have missed it!

Did anyone watch this prog last week? If so can you tell me why the obsession with Prince Phillip? i must have missed that bit, seems very random.

for all the HEROES lovers!

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gina32

yes i watched it, i think that they thought he was their god! and they came here and hoped to meet him and take him back with them!

natalie_1982

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I got that, but why him?? He seems the least likely person I could think of?!

gina32

i know, pity they didnt take him!

vetty

he once visited their island!

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At the start of the last century, English missionaries visited Tanna in an effort to convert them to Christianity. This angered the Kastam God, who sent his eldest son over to the UK to try to stop them. On Tanna, this son was a spirit, but in England they believe that this spirit has taken on the form of a man. When the Royal yacht Britannia visited their island in the 1970s, they decided that this man was Prince Philip. Shortly afterwards, the tribe sent the Duke of Edinburgh a club, by way of a gift. Several months later, Buckingham Palace returned the favour, posting them a framed picture of a smiling Prince Philip holding the club. In such gestures are legends born. Today, that photograph is a religious icon, their equivalent of an altar at a church.

natalie_1982

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Blimey Boo, that was a sensible answer!

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