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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...
The Jarai
The Jarai are, on Vietnam’s census counts, the largest of the Central Highlands peoples: the people of the Pleiku plateau and the Ayun valley, and across the border in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri. Like the Rhade they speak a Chamic language and reckon descent through women. Their ritual masters of fire and water were known to the kings of Cambodia, an...
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