Mtao Grứ
Rade (Ede) · mortal · Rade (Ede) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Mtao Grứ is one of the two rival war-chiefs whose abduction of Đăm Săn's wife drives the epic's cycle of war. Like Mtao Mxây he raids the hero's house and carries off a wife to his own stronghold, and like him he is hunted down, overcome in single combat and killed, his people and possessions passing to the victor. The two defeated chiefs together establish Đăm Săn as the paramount mtao of the highlands. Sources record his name in several spellings.
Domains
- kingship
Powers
- seizes a rival chief's wife
Relations
- enemy: Đăm SănSabatier, La Chanson de Damsan (1927). (primary)
Sources
- Mtao Grứ is a rival chief who abducts Đăm Săn's wife and is defeated and killed by the hero.: Léopold Sabatier (coll.), La Chanson de Damsan (Paris, 1927). (primary); Nguyễn Hữu Thấu (ed.), Sử thi Ê-đê: Đăm Săn (2003). (primary)