Potao Angin

Jarai · mortal · Jarai traditional religion; continuing · mortal

The Potao Angin, or King of Wind, completes the Jarai triad of sacral masters. He is by far the most shadowy of the three: the Fire and Water Kings dominate both indigenous tradition and the external records of the Vietnamese and Cambodian courts, while the Wind King appears chiefly in ethnographic accounts of the fuller sacral scheme. Sources differ on whether the Wind King formed a continuous third office or a more intermittently filled complement to his seniors. In the ordered cosmology reconstructed by Dournes he rounds out a set of elemental masteries, fire, water, and wind, through which the community's dependence on the yang of the natural world is ritually managed.

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