When will we see Kangaroo weds Neak Kampuchea ? Python newlyweds draw crowds in Cambodia (AFP) – 16 hours ago KANDAL, Cambodia — Hundreds of Cambodians on Monday celebrated an unusual wedding ceremony -- for a pair of pythons -- who they believe will bring good luck to their villages. The marriage of serpent bride Chamreun to groom, Krong Pich, was held in Village One in Kandal province, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh, and attracted nearly 1,000 people, according to witnesses. "We organised the wedding ceremony for the pythons in order to oust bad things and bring good luck and happiness for our villages," said 41-year-old Neth Vy, Chamreun's owner. Neth Vy said his family had raised Chamreun in their home since 1994, after the then finger-sized snake got caught in his fishing net in a lake. He said Chamreun had gone missing for over a month but was found a week ago, at the same time people in his neighbouring village caught a male python, which they named Krong Pich. Old villagers decided to wed the two pythons after a boy, who was believed to be spirit-possessed, said Krong Pich wanted to marry Chamreun, or "people in the villages will suffer illnesses and bad luck," Neth Vy told AFP. He said some fortune tellers had also appealed for the marriage between the pythons in order to bring "good luck and harmony for the people in the villages". "So we held the wedding ceremony for the pythons with blessings from Buddhist monks, in accordance with our tradition," he said. Many people offered money and prayed after the pythons were placed in the same cage following the religious ceremony. "It surprised me. Since I was born I have never seen snakes get married," said Penh Kong, a 56-year-old vendor, while admired the happy couple. Many Cambodians are highly superstitious, particularly in the countryside where people continue to merge animist practices with Buddhism.
________________________________ De : Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> À :Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org Envoyé le : Lun 3 janvier 2011, 8h 05min 53s Objet : Re: Anti-Khmer has been due to Khmer woman/man who get marriage with other race's man/woman. Hey kangaroo, How is the little guy in your pouch?? D'ohh!! The sentiment of the Khmer Rouge regime wasn't to promote pure Cambodians (I believe you mean pure Khmers). The sentiment was of hatred, and of murdering anyone they hated. They hated everyone who were against them, they hated everyone whom they perceived as being against them or even potentially against them, and, all in all, they simply hated everyone who wasn't living under their authority in their captured territory before 17 Apr 1975. Proof: The pure Khmers were also among the Cambodian people they mass-murdered. They promoted (and appointed) poor uneducated (and even illiterate) peasants to (high) official rankings not because those peasants were pure Khmers, but because they would be easy to command to massacre their own people. Pheng On Jan 2, 4:35 am, kangaroo <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me bring everyone back to the era of Khmer Rouge. > The sentiment of that regime then was to promote pure Cambodians. > They considered poor uneducated peasants as pure Cambodians. > So they promoted them to be in official rankings. > Those people were the ones who killed. They didn't know anything but > anger. > They had very little education if not at all. > > After the Vietnamese invasion, many of those peasants woke up and > smell the roses. > Today, many of them have strived in many ways unlike in the past when > they only knew how to work in rice field or farming with their > muscles. > > You have seen many of those people now working in high ranking offices > in government. > Some of them had very little education in their life time. > > Today, many Cambodians look at those people as unsuitable for offices > because they believe that only educated people should recieve those > preveledges. That's wrong. > It may be right if we think about better candidates. However, one > cannot discriminate anyone from working in official ranking offices. > > However, I strongly believe that many government officals today have > much education needed to run the country. > > On Dec 31 2010, 12:06 pm, Neak Kampuchea <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Who is going to stop these Khmer inter-racially marraged man and > > woman? So anti-Khmer race is falling to your own Khmer race man and > > woman themselves and so on and on for ever until some day ahead, we > > the people on this earth will count on where we are living, without > > being able to identify what race they really are? > > > If Bury Chau is living in france, he is French of Vietnamese or Khmer > > national. > > And what means anti-Khmer are you talking about? Isn't that Khmer is > > alway right even though Khmer is wrong? Do you mean that Pol-Pot, and > > Kiev Samphan are Vietnamese, but not Khmer? aren't they? Please tell > > me. > > > Do you want Khmer culture alway as highly valuable than other, low > > class people must be bower their head before high class gentleman/ > > woman? > > May be you don't like all men are created equal with freedom of > > expression? > > From Neak Kampuchea.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
