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Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future (Eine Sorgenfreie Zukunft) in 1898, [1] which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters), he was founding in the then-German (now Papua New Guinean) Bismarck Archipelago in the South Pacific, a place known for its headhunters. [2]
The religion was deemed a "cult" and was promptly banned in 1975 by communist officials. [1] The Coconut Monk died in unexplained circumstances in 1990, [9] marking the demise of the cult. [citation needed] The Coconut Estate is now serving as a tourist attraction along the My Tho Mekong Delta Tour. [clarification needed]
A marble slab with a brief inscription of Ông Đạo Dừa's name. Ông Đạo Dừa ("The Coconut Monk"), born Nguyễn Thành Nam (December 25 1910 – May 13 1990), was a self-styled Vietnamese mystic and the founder of the Coconut Religion (Đạo Dừa) in Vietnam. [1] [2] Đạo Dừa temple in Bến Tre.
Kabakon or Kaka Kon Island is a small island in group of Duke of York Islands in the Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. [1] August Engelhardt chose Kabakon as the island to establish his Sun-worshipping sect, notable for only eating coconuts, from 1902 until his death.
Coconut flower. Hainuwele, "The Coconut Girl", is a figure from the Wemale and Alune folklore of the island of Seram in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Her story is an origin myth. [1] The myth of Hainuwele was recorded by German ethnologist Adolf E. Jensen following the Frobenius Institute's 1937–38 expedition to the Maluku Islands. [2]
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family and the only living species of the genus Cocos. [1] The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") [2] can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut.
Unification Church (统一教; tǒngyī jiào), known as "The Moonies" in the US, founded by Korean-American Sun Myung Moon in Busan in 1954, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1997. [10] Sanban Puren Pai (三班仆人派; sān bān púrén pài), a Christian sect founded by Xu Wenku in the 1990s, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1999.
The Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) — cultivation of the tree, and its "fruit" and other products. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.