Royal cows predict poor harvest in Cambodia
Cambodia's royal cows signalled a drought and poor harvests in an ancient ceremony Saturday to mark the beginning of the kingdom's planting season.
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen joined thousands of Cambodians for the annual ceremony as royal astrologers fed the cows seven dishes -- rice, corn, beans, sesame, grass, water and rice wine -- laid out on trays.
Hun Sen, who rebuked royal astrologers for failing to predict the deadly floods in 2001 that claimed 59 lives, said he was hopeful that the kingdom would be blessed with good harvests.
"We hope all spirits will help Cambodian farmers to get good agricultural production," the prime minister said at the start of the traditional ceremony held at a park near Phnom Penh's Royal Palace.
But the cows only ate corn, meaning Cambodia, one of the world's poorest nations struggling after three decades of civil war, could suffer this year.
"The royal cows ate only 45 percent of the corn, which means Cambodia could suffer a severe drought and bad harvests," chief astrologer Kang Ken told onlookers.
Cambodia frequently suffers from drought and flooding, threatening the livelihoods of millions in the impoverished nation.
While still taken seriously by many rural Cambodians, the ploughing ceremony predictions have been called into question in recent years.
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen joined thousands of Cambodians for the annual ceremony as royal astrologers fed the cows seven dishes -- rice, corn, beans, sesame, grass, water and rice wine -- laid out on trays.
Hun Sen, who rebuked royal astrologers for failing to predict the deadly floods in 2001 that claimed 59 lives, said he was hopeful that the kingdom would be blessed with good harvests.
"We hope all spirits will help Cambodian farmers to get good agricultural production," the prime minister said at the start of the traditional ceremony held at a park near Phnom Penh's Royal Palace.
But the cows only ate corn, meaning Cambodia, one of the world's poorest nations struggling after three decades of civil war, could suffer this year.
"The royal cows ate only 45 percent of the corn, which means Cambodia could suffer a severe drought and bad harvests," chief astrologer Kang Ken told onlookers.
Cambodia frequently suffers from drought and flooding, threatening the livelihoods of millions in the impoverished nation.
While still taken seriously by many rural Cambodians, the ploughing ceremony predictions have been called into question in recent years.
10 comments:
Hey Khmers,
No wonder you're easily taken by the Neighbor because of your idiosyncracy. How can the lower food chain be the omnipotent one?
There is another cow -- predicted that there are too many stupid Khmers that we (khmer) should abstain from multiplication!
End Khmers Now!
Hun Sen can destroy all of this in just a blink of AN EYE!
To 7:07PM Motherfucker!
This is a fucken tradition or public relation to make Cambodian people aware that Cambodian King is still in power!!!But as it turn out, it is the fucken Vietcong is still in power!!!ahhahahhahhah
The Vietcong can't hide their true intention on Cambodia people!!!Nobody no more about the Vietcong tricks more than Cambodian people!!
Cambodian King is so stupid to realize that there is no Kingdom for him to rule!!!It is now the Vietcong Kingdom under AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave leadership!!!!
Cambodian people must forever multiply to fight the Vietong dark force to control Cambodian people!!!ahahhahahh
May the force be with Cambodian people!!!
Get real this is 2007 now, that just another stupid tradition predicting. use your fucking brain to solve the problems ok not fucking cow that we eat them every day.
Yes, we do need to get REAL. 12:32AM, how right you are. There are endless things we (Khmers) needed to reassess ourselves. Khmer religion is a hybrid: 50% buddhism, 35%mythism, and 15% satanism. Definitely, we need to get real. Who needed to go to school--when one can buy a diploma, a certificate, and a degree! We need to get Real on education.
Sanitation: we need to get real. Khmer life expectancy is 57+ years. We are consuming our waste products because there aren't any Waste Management in the Rural areas.
WE NEED TO GET REAL...
Look at that fucking dam stupid they call him king seat in the chair and let people carry him. this fucking stupid. It look like kids playin my backyard.
I am sure you have gone to school
instead of buying your stupid
diploma, 1:25; however, I can't
tell the different between you and
a person who bought the stupid
diploma for a couple USD. You both
are a true morons.
10:56AM,
Have you been in Cambodia? Have you stopped denying that our beloved country is so benevolent? I love Cambodia! It's a faulty of the officials that degrade the Society. Asked anyone in Cambodia School System, how did he/she gets to the next level? And what does a teacher do for a living?
To not accept the fact, clearly you are Morons. Etus Brute!
Yep, that sounds like you
(morons): a person who expected
more from a poor country than a
rich country.
Watch YouTube "Sihanouk & Vietcong"
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