Case file · Folklore / legend
Prince Philip movement
In Yaohnanen and nearby villages on Tanna, people revere Prince Philip as the son of a mountain spirit; the belief grew around his visit to the New Hebrides with Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
1974 CE · -19.48, 169.30 · status: official
The account
Villagers exchanged gifts and photographs with the prince, and some delegates visited him in England in 2007. When he died in April 2021, villages held mourning ceremonies.
The sceptical view
An example of how Pacific peoples fold outside figures into their own cosmology; it is belief history, not evidence of anything beyond that.