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The Cevin Who Would Be King

Arrow pointing at white man in khaki pant and a baseball cap, text says "Cevin Soling aka 'Malcolm Jarry', co-owner of The Satanic Temple." Soling is flanked by two Ni-Vanuatu men in mlitary fatigues, with another man carrying a USA flag a few steps behind him. Another six paces behind that man is a contingent of NI-Vanuatu men marching in fatigues with wooden muskets. From a hut and at the edge of a clearing, more people look on.

Cevin Soling is the co- or sole owner of most of The Satanic Temple’s various corporations but goes by the pseudonym “Malcolm Jarry” when associating with TST in public, including—alarmingly—on many of their legal documents. We’ve talked before about how before and during the early years of the Temple, Soling (as “Cevin Soling”) was visiting […]

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The Devil Went Down to the South Pacific

Tweet: ‘There was a prophecy I would come’: the western men who think they are South Pacific kings Travellers to tiny islands in Vanuatu claim to fulfil a local belief that a mysterious figure from afar will one day bring prosperity. What are they hoping for?
Chief Isaac, documentary-maker Cevin Soling and villagers in military fatigues celebrate John Frum Day. Photograph: Jon Tonks

New book confirms The Satanic Temple’s co-founder Cevin Soling was for years among the “crackpots” trying to be a cargo cult messiah on a small Pacific island