1.   These so-called cargo cults became bizarre, microcosmic societies that survived almost entirely on hopes and dreams that might never be realized.

2.   The cargo cults build models of the planes so the planes will come back to the island.

3.   In the land of the cargo cult, villagers here are turning a singular symbol of Western civilisation, the Coca Cola bottle, into badly-needed cash.

4.   Famous once for its cargo cults, Ernst said they were finding that the pentecostalists were involved in a modern variation on that theme -- pyramid money schemes.

5.   Melanesia is the main home of the so-called cargo cults, which were born out of the collision between European civilisation and the indigenous culture of the southewest Pacific.