Cargo Priestess

The Cargo Prophetess was a theme found in many stories of the Hauserkinder in which the female child would incite her poor or oppressed community to reject materialism. Her followers would follow her in a frenzied potlatch or a ritual destruction of property in the hopes of proving to the gods that they were the chosen people and that they deserved divine liberation or entry to paradise. Each story ended with the prophetess' disappearance or death at the hands of a hungry mob. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Category:Mythological figures