[lit-ideas] Australasian Mythography
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:47:26 EST
In a message dated 11/14/2004 9:08:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The custom of wearing grass skirts began during this
period. The first grass skirts were brought then to Hawaii from the Samoa
Islands.
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Talking of Australasian mythography, I was reading "The Tarnished Crown"
yesterday, by A. Holden:
"In the remote Pacific islands of the New Hebrides, there is a 200-strong
native tribe called the Iounhanans who worship Prince Philip [Duke of
Edinburgh,
husband to the Queen of the UK] as their god. A signed photograph he once
sent them is now the centre-piece of an altar before which they prostrate
themselves. One day, they believe, Philip will come to live among them and
rule
over them, blessed with the power of healing.. The closest their Messiah has
come to fulfilling this prophecy was in 1974, when he sailed straight past
their island with his wife in her yacht Britannia, on their way elsewhere."
(p.
191)
Cheers,
JL
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