jon frum is a an active cargo cult on the island of tanna in vanuatu in the south pacifc. jon frum is also the name of the messenger of this movement; who on his return, will provide it's believers with promised goods, or cargo ...

... while in the western world, volumes of text and research have been spent on the aspects of cargo cults, the details to what the jon frum movement is about in detail is limited. the primary reason for this is that the beliefs are not written, but passed by word-of-mouth. localised to villages on the island of tanna. it's history thus is not structured, but an interpretation of different individuals.

the cargo cult coined jon frum, seems to have developed in the 1930s and was further reinforced by the direct events of world war two. as well it was well documented from this time onward by sources outside of the resident believers, much opinion and theory has been added in that time, far beyond the core of those ni-vanuatu living on tanna.

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