What does the word cargo cult pilgrimage mean?

Answer 1

Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia

A cargo cult is a tribe or group of people in islands in the pacific that the united states used as storage during World War 2 (or maybe Vietnam War ??). the united states put their ammunition and other weapons for war on islands that had not previously seen or known of individuals from the outside world. so, when the united states came with their machines that may have looked like something out of a Science Fiction novel to them, they began to worship these soldiers. and over the years, and generations of oral tradition and passed on heresay, this has become a center to their animistic religion, in which they believe someone resembling a white male soldier is going to come back and....have something ensue similar to the final resurrection in believed by abrahamic religions. I'm sorry if this did not help you.