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Viewing articles tagged 'king of water'
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Before 1800: free in the highlands
For more than two thousand years before the nineteenth century the Dega governed themselves in the highlands. We farmed, hunted, traded, judged our own disputes and worshipped as we chose. Three neighboring monarchies dealt with our ritual authorities as with a power worth propitiating. That is the baseline against which everything since should...
The Kings of Fire and Water
For centuries the Jarai had two ritual masters whose names were known at the courts of Cambodia and Huê: the Pơtao Apui, Master of Fire, and the Pơtao Ia, Master of Water. Kings sent them elephants and silk. They were not rulers in the European sense, and they were not treated as rulers by the states that finally absorbed them. The last Master o...
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